Posts by Geoff Lealand
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(As I posted elsewhere....) we had just returned from four years away in the US and UK and I recall having a conversation in Wellington with a slightly crazed American who was attempting to argue that the riot was engineered by the CIA, to destabilise the Lange Government. Heady days!
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Although there is a hint of instant gratification (I want my new show and I want it now...!!) regarding access to film and TV shows, there is an important issue around the monopolisation of content by one dominant player in NZ pay-TV. Certainly, Sky got off far too lightly in the recent conclusions from the Commerce Commission.
So many battles to be fought. Firstly, the GCSB Bill, and now the TPP ....
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I know that one is asked to have an opinion or take a position on this and other similar cases (Bain, Kahui twins etc etc), but just can't do it. Instead, I usually have two questions'
Q. 1 If the person in the spotlight didn't commit the murder, then who did?
Q. 2 Why are the police so seemingly incompetent in such cases?
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
But the only dud note in a remarkable game (except maybe for the team list typo?)
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Good writing, Russell. I would be happy to pay an on-line sub for the Guardian, in return for years of daily online delivery.
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... and are the real parents of Jane Birkin?
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We lived, for some months in the 1980s, through a London winter in a squat adjacent to the Lambeth Walk. I had romantic notions of the place (...doing the Lambeth Walk) but , god, it was a dismal place. Corrugated iron everywhere, grills that slammed shut on the few sad shops at 5pm, general despair pervading..
I had a short-term research position with the BFI, stationed with the Independent Broadcasting Authority right opposite Harrods (used to go across Old Brompton Road for lunch and spend as little as possible). We were saving for a fare home, so stayed in a squat which had been made liveable by Martin Lodge, the music academic. Apparently his father was a plumber or builder or such.
Now my son spends heaps for a room in a tiny flat in South London.
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Thanks, Jos. Did my little bit for Christchurch today at the local Home & Garden Show, by purchasing a chair made by Rekindle. It is lovely and will be an excellent birthday present for A Certain Person.
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More wisteria, in our front garden, from today. It always look so unpromising in winter, as I prune away die-back and weta-infested leaders. Then it bursts in flower in spring like this, with a most amazingly heady scent.
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Hard News: Thursday Music: Doing the Business, in reply to Grant McDougall,
I get the feeling that she is more of a Cunliffe person than a Key person. An insightful review of Heroine by Nick Bollinger today.
