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I’m loving memory of our dear friend and colleague, legendary video editor Andy Gibb who made great political stories and so much more with immense skill and good humour for more than 2 decades. - #nzpol 1News #videoediting #legend #tvnz #news #rip

#WATCH "I think the guards found it quite ironic because we'd gone from being into the manufacture of drugs, to manufacturing yoghurt." Two inmates, inspired by celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, swap manufacturing meth for manufacturing yoghurt. Watch here ▶️ : youtu.be/PUzFbJVKbrg

A major source of mine died last month. There was no death notice, nor funeral: Her life and her passing was a mystery. I tried writing an obit of sorts, and it pretty much turned into tragic Memento. nzherald.co.nz/business/news/…

Simply, brilliant.

Really sad to see our local butchers having to shut their doors while supermarket are struggling to keep up with the demand. Surely our government needs understand that by allowing butchers to operate under level 4 it helps take some load off the supermarkets that are open.

Family that disappeared on Waikato beach found stuff.co.nz/national/12654…

('I like Sandra, but I’m very disappointed') (stuff.co.nz/national/healt…) A masterclass in skewering Sandra’s anti vax claims. An excellent read

Really hope all those criticising the funding belatedly put into the vax programme for Māori, and the letter-writers who put their low vax rates down to laziness, read this: Covid-19 vaccination: How mistrust shadows the roll-out in a time of crisis stuff.co.nz/national/healt…

I've waited 2 years to tell Junior's story. It was such a pleasure to finally meet him and talk. He wants others to learn from his experience, so no one else will suffer the "evil" he suffered.

There’s been some great books about parents and family over the past couple of years - by the likes of Adam Dudding and Charlotte Grimshaw. This one is right up there with those 👏👏

You’ll not understand the power & beauty of your youth until they’ve faded.But trust me,in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself & recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you & how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine

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Excited to start a new gig this week as host of my own podcast, Generally Famous. Each week I chat to a generally famous, always interesting Kiwi about life & what makes them tick. First episode hits Wednesday. Follow at stuff.co.nz/generallyfamous or wherever you get your podcasts.

A lovely send-off this afternoon at old St Paul’s, Wellington, for one of the best.

via ⁦⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opi…

.Nick Cohen bravely faced down libel lawyers to write this in support of me & my publisher when we were facing the crushing weight of 4 oligarch lawsuits & the Kremlin. I'd never met him but he's a shining light combating abusive lawsuits by the superrich thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-20…