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Tag Archives: John Key
Don Brash, John Key and Mary Poppins
It’s Mary Poppins time boys and girls – Dr Brash is your medicine and Mr Key your spoonful of sugar. Do you want to take your medicine? No? Well, what’s to be done with you? There not quite as … Continue reading
The Key(wi) way to being ordinary – Part I
In a recent column, left wing commentator Chris Trotter has written what appears to be a paen to Prime Minister John Key. (I’ll address this issue in a series of posts, this being the first.) Trotter argues that John Key … Continue reading
Are we all Hobbits now?
‘The Hobbit Enabling Act’ – the title alone should keep postmodern theorists in scholarly manuscripts for at least the next decade. Apparently, we’re all now enabled to be Hobbits – but is that what we want to be? Alternatively, if … Continue reading
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