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Work Report - November 2011

NZ Elections

November 25th 2011 02:05

Tomorrow we vote for the people we want to go into Parliament, here in New Zealand. Or rather, we try and vote them in.

It's been a fairly messy few weeks, with crazy behaviour amongst some of the candidates, including the current Prime Minister, John Key, who's gone from being a dead cert to being someone who is now holding on for dear life. He's promised to do some things that have really got under the skin of many New Zealanders, and they've lost confidence in him

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Stephen Fry rants....

November 13th 2011 00:59

Stephen Fry in full flight as he takes to task not only Ezra Pound but also the fruit of his thinking: modern 'free' verse:

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On creativity

November 7th 2011 00:24

The following two quotes come from Steve Turner's book, Imagine, which I'm reading for the second or third time. (Re-reading books is something I'm doing more and more of: if they were good in the first place, why not run through them again?)

Both appear on page 55 of the book; the first is from playwright Arthur Miller and the second from poet and musician Don Paterson.
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