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A rocket full of Posie

Man, people are cranky. And shouty. And downright silly. Particularly politicians. And, generally speaking, the whole damn world. There has been a lot of loose trolling going on. You could have written the script for the carry-on about British anti-trans activist Posie Parker and her time at Auckland’s Albert Park. A lot of incoherent cranky shouting. A bit of argy-bargy. Nobody listening to a word anyone else said. It must be election year. Or just another year.

This was supposed to be the climate-change election. Then the cost-of-living election. The Nats appear to have decreed it the readingwriting-’ rithmetic election. Labour seems to have declared it the ripping-up-of-formerly-announced-aims election.

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