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	<title>Bryan Gould</title>
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		<title>The EU Was Always Anti-British</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The EU Was Always Anti-British</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fast Track Stupidity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ten years from now, I will almost certainly be dead. But, if I were to live that long, I would be constantly challenged with the question, “Why did you not warn us about what was surely already apparent &#8211; that the globe was heating at an ever-increasing rate, and that &#8211; unless we changed our behaviours very drastically &#8211; it would rapidly become uninhabitable.” I would have no satisfactory answer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Ailing Health Service</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 03:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had occasion yesterday to visit our health centre. My doctor had said that I needed a blood test. The first thing I noticed was that the phlebotomist was acting as her own receptionist. She was handing a number to prospective patients in the order in which they presented themselves. After she had done this for a time, she skipped next door to her little surgery and delivered the required [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Learning from our Past</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our government is in the course &#8211; before our very eyes &#8211; of declaring that it has lost confidence in, and is accordingly abandoning, the founding concept of New Zealand. It apparently prefers the path trodden by others. The world is not short of countries in which an invading population of &#8211; usually white &#8211; people takes over the government and subjects another group &#8211; usually black or brown &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Global Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I first became aware of Cafca, improbably enough, you may well think, while I was a visiting Fellow for a term at Nuffield College, Oxford in 2005. I had set myself the task, while away, of writing a book about the global economy, which seemed to me at the time to be a rapidly developing and not entirely welcome phenomenon &#8211; and I set myself the task of evaluating its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Timidity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is not just Karl Marx &#8211; even the most enthusiastic supporters of the market economy (not least Adam Smith) will concede that its normal operation inevitably leads to a concentration of wealth in relatively few hands. Some, at least, of these enthusiasts will accept that such a concentration is unacceptable and must be countered by a political system in which those who lose out can use the power of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Black Friday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 21:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As everyone who watches television or is on the mailing list for any of our major stores will confirm, “Black Friday” has become the longest running commercial extravaganza and celebration in our history. Although its origins are obscure (presumably dreamt up by American salesmen a few years ago), it has now extended itself beyond any one particular Friday and threatens to cover the whole of so-called “Black November” and then [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Instability Built In</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The long and contested process of negotiation to arrive at a new government, comprising three separate parties and with three different sets of priorities, signals strongly that the new government (if we get one) will be inherently unstable and will fall apart at the seams as soon as it faces any difficult decisions. And that risk is exacerbated by the fact that the only one of the three party leaders [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prog-Gress?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over recent days, the media (and, not least Matthew Hooton in the Herald) have, not surprisingly, been full of comment on the failure of Christopher Luxon’s much-touted negotiating skills to materialise. It may be, however, that the episode casts yet further light on his personality defects. Keen-eyed and keen-eared observers may well have heard Luxon talk repeatedly about the “progress” that either has or has not been made. “Progress” is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Rugby World Cup Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My question about the Rugby World Cup Final. How could any rational person, let alone anyone who knows anything about rugby, have reached the decision &#8211; a red card for Sam Cane, but a yellow card for Siya Kolisi?]]></description>
		
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		<title>A New New Zealand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I returned to New Zealand in 1994, after a 32 year-long stint in the UK, I was gratified and reassured by what I found in the land of my birth. All of the familiar Kiwi virtues were there &#8211; the sense of belonging, the care for others, the drive for collective as well as individual success. As I contemplate the immediate future, however, I am less confident that these [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Social Dimension</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2023 22:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a former politician myself, I find that &#8211; especially at general election time &#8211; I increasingly reflect on whether our democracy is doing its expected and proper job for us. As the word itself suggests, “democracy” is often defined as “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. “The people” in this context means all of us, not just some sectors of the population. The campaign for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Does Democracy Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 02:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a former politician myself, I find that &#8211; especially at general election time &#8211; I increasingly reflect on whether our democracy is doing its expected and proper job for us. As the word itself suggests, “democracy” is often defined as “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. “The people” in this context means all of us, not just some sectors of the population. The campaign for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Cares About Facts and Figures?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who cares about facts and figures &#8211; especially if they don’t back up political prejudices? In the light of today’s Prefu forecasts as to where the economy is heading, which showed a pretty positive picture of the economic future, National’s Luxon and Willis were not to be deterred. “Labour has left the cupboard bare,” Willis proclaimed &#8211; a statement flatly disproved by the Prefu figures. “Kiwis deserve better,” said Luxon [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aimless Kicking</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aimless kicking is a failing that has afflicted New Zealand rugby for far too long. Even the least informed rugby fan would understand the simple proposition that advances cannot be made or tries scored unless the ball is in possession; to kick it away, in other words, is no more than a confession of impotence and an invitation to the opposing team to see what they can do with it. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Be On Your Guard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So now we know. We heard it from the man himself. Christopher Luxon told us that he is “incredibly confident” that National’s calculations about their tax proposals are accurate &#8211; and “incredible” is exactly what they are. There is another small indication that the proposition is shonky. Did you notice that the benefit to taxpayers was constantly expressed in terms of a fortnightly sum, rather than the more usual weekly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stuck On A Hook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What can be done to help Chris Hipkins off a hook of his own making? “There will be no wealth tax while I am Prime Minister,” he said, and there he is stuck &#8211; even though his own senior lieutenants, his party membership, popular sentiment, economic prudence, social justice, and political advantage all point in the opposite direction. He is stuck, it seems, because he fears the damage to his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Which Europe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 23:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In today’s Guardian, Will Hutton &#8211; an old friend with whom I have, sadly, now lost touch &#8211; repeats a common (and possibly deliberate) error; he insists on locating Brexit as part of a far-right resurgence in Europe; and, in so doing, he conflates (as so many do) Europe and the European Union. Those who supported Britain’s initial joining of the European Union have always ignored and misrepresented the initial [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;The Boss&#8221; Complex</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher once said &#8211; famously, or, perhaps, notoriously, that &#8211; “there is no such thing as society”. Would-be political leaders from the political right &#8211; and, perhaps, especially the male ones &#8211; often share a similar view and, in addition, tend to suffer a major disadvantage. In their personal lives, they have usually been accustomed to telling people what to do and to having them “jump to it”. They [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What It Means To be A Kiwi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When, in 1962, as a 23 year-old Rhodes Scholar, I boarded the Northern Star to sail to Britain where I was to study for a post-graduate law degree at Balliol College, Oxford, I took with me an LP (yes, we had those funny bits of vinyl in those days). It was a recording of the St Joseph’s Maori Girls Choir, singing Maori love songs and starring their lead singer Wiki [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Propaganda Sheet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is hard to credit that those responsible for the Herald’s news coverage &#8211; the editors, reporters, and commentators &#8211; can feel satisfied at producing what has become just a propaganda sheet &#8211; a publication in which each item is assessed and given prominence according to its ability to skew the political debate to one side rather than another. It is one thing to allow political prejudice to colour the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Dog-Whistle</title>
		<link>https://bryangould.com/the-dog-whistle/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-dog-whistle</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are moments when one despairs &#8211; and those moments have come with increasing frequency over recent weeks. They have arisen as Christopher Luxon &#8211; with the apparent support of the Herald &#8211; has ventured into “dog-whistle” politics, and has sought to play “the race card” in his efforts to win the general election. There was, first, his ruling out of a coalition with Te Pati Maori. Then his ambivalence [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The &#8220;Anti-Woke&#8221; Herald</title>
		<link>https://bryangould.com/the-anti-woke-herald/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-anti-woke-herald</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These days, I make a point of reading the Herald for a particular reason &#8211; not, in order to get an accurate account of the day’s news, but to gain some insight into the mentality of those whose guiding principle is not accuracy or rationality but, rather, visceral hatred of those who oppose or differ from them. In this quest, I naturally turn to those contributors in the Herald’s pages [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ridiculous Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 05:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Herald is usually keen to promote Mike Hosking. But, in today’s issue, they could hardly have made him look more ridiculous.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Matthew Hooton</title>
		<link>https://bryangould.com/matthew-hooton/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=matthew-hooton</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Matthew Hooton is that rare commodity &#8211; a right-wing commentator who is worth reading. His article in today’s Herald is a case in point. Apart from a somewhat tendentious definition of “wokery” &#8211; a pejorative term often unthinkingly applied to attitudes best described as “concern for others” &#8211; his piece is a triumph of good sense. It is a salutary experience for everyone to read someone they expect to disagree [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Royal Correspondent?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 23:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most eccentric of the regular contributions to the Herald is the item written by one, Daniela Elser, an Australia-based and self-described “royal correspondent.” A “royal correspondent” would normally be thought of as one who has particular links with the royal family and with particular sources of information and insights not available to the ordinary on-looker. Daniela Elser, however, professes no such qualifications. Her stock-in-trade is a commentary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poor Old Mike Hosking</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poor old Mike Hosking! In today’s Herald, such is his visceral antipathy to our current government, that he is reduced to wrestling with himself in trying to understand how it is that despite its many failings &#8211; in his eyes at least &#8211; the Labour government is somehow ahead in the polls. He comes up with two answers. The first is that large numbers of people &#8211; pensioners, working families, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>National&#8217;s  Problem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 23:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is becoming increasingly clear that National, under Christopher Luxon’s leadership, cannot win the next election. A Labour government, having recently brought about a smooth change of leadership, and currently being confronted with a series of unprecedented challenges &#8211; the impact on the economy and health services of the covid pandemic, the damage wreaked by cyclone Gabrielle, and the inflationary consequences of the Ukraine war, to name but three &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dreaming</title>
		<link>https://bryangould.com/dreaming/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dreaming</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Claire Trevett in today’s Herald provides us with an insight into how much the right is missing the levers of power. Their banishment from the role of government makes them sick to the gut &#8211; to the extent that they must regularly reach for their lucky charm and for a recollection of better days. In this morning’s piece, Claire Trevett withholds any credit from Chris Hipkins for his impressive response [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tried and True</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 22:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank heavens we have a Labour government! No government in recent times has had more experience in dealing with crises &#8211; the mosque murders, the Whakaari eruption, the covid pandemic, the inflationary consequences of the Ukraine war. Faced with Cyclone Gabrielle, we have been fortunate, even after Jacinda’s departure, in having an experienced operator in Chris Hipkins at the helm. We can’t afford to entrust the management of national crises [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Misleading Headlines</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 18:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Herald’s headline writers are at it again! A sensible and balanced piece by Liam Dann on the battle against inflation carries a headline that suggests that NZ is doing worse than the rest of the world. Check it out and see for yourself if I am right. Is this the kind of responsible journalism we should be able to expect?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mike&#8217;s Cracked Record</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poor Mike Hosking. He has revealed himself in his most recent diatribe to be one of those public figures who is defined, not by who he is, but by who he isn’t, or at least not by what he is for, but by what he is against. Jacinda’s departure has left him bereft of anything distinctive to say &#8211; to the extent that he is reduced to quoting none other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jacinda</title>
		<link>https://bryangould.com/jacinda/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jacinda</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She gave it her all. No New Zealand Prime Minister has ever dominated the political scene at home as she has done, or has established an international profile to match hers. No New Zealand Prime Minister has had to confront such a sequence of domestic and international catastrophes &#8211; from the mosque killings to the Whakaari eruption, from the covid pandemic to the Ukraine war; and each one grew and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prince Harry&#8217;s Problem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is it with Prince Harry?. Most of us would probably acknowledge that he has a legitimate cause for complaint at the way he and his wife have been treated by the British media. But there is more to it than that. Harry seems to harbour resentment against the media all right but against his own family as well. What is the basis of that resentment? If the title of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>TheHerald &#8211; A Joke</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Herald’s deliberate, sustained and orchestrated campaign to slant the news has gone beyond a joke &#8211; not that it was ever a joke. In virtually every issue of the Herald, the news selection, headlining, and commentary are specifically designed to show the government in a bad light or opposition parties and politicians in a good light. Today’s issue is a case in point. There is a piece claiming to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Pipsqueak&#8221; or &#8220;Prick&#8221;?</title>
		<link>https://bryangould.com/pipsqueak-or-prick/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pipsqueak-or-prick</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have always thought that the appropriate epithet to apply to David Seymour was “pipsqueak”. His reaction to the Prime Minister calling him an “arrogant prick”, however, confirms her judgment rather than mine. His disastrous intervention on television and attempt to capitalise on the Prime Minister’s use of the term confirmed that the PM had got him bang to rights.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hamilton West</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hamilton West by-election was a valuable pointer to the outcome of next year’s general election, according to the Herald (whose relentlessly biased and one-sided news selection, reporting and commentary on a daily basis continue to do us all a disservice and are a blight on our democracy). But one doesn’t have to be an expert to understand that a by-election is very rarely any such thing. First, the turn-out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Check It Out</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most recent census returns in the UK and in New Zealand show that the majority of people, in both countries, now have no religious belief. That necessarily gives rise to the question &#8211; in the absence of divine direction, where do people now look to find moral guidance? My most recent book, What Does It Mean To Be Human? (available in all good bookshops) is my attempt to answer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The True Cost</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is hard to take seriously the voices of those currently asserting that Brexit has come with a considerable economic cost. Where were those voices at the very beginning of what became the Brexit saga, when we were assured that membership of what was then the Common Market would produce great economic benefits to the UK? There were some of us who warned at the outset that paying twice &#8211; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Political Minefield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poor Christopher Luxon. His lack of political experience (and judgment) is constantly being highlighted &#8211; not least by his recent foray into the treatment of child criminality. So keen was he to draw attention to his assertion that “Labour is soft on crime” that he was prepared to run the risk of being disowned by experts in the field. He was unwise enough to resurrect a proposal for “boot camps” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Book</title>
		<link>https://bryangould.com/new-book/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-book</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a new book being published this month. It is entitled “What Does It Mean to Be Human?” and is an attempt to arrive at a moral code of our own making &#8211; one that will serve all our interests and those of other creatures and of the planet &#8211; using our own knowledge, experience, emotional intelligence and reasoning ability, without reference to the supposed benefit of divine guidance. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Three Little Words!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The crucial moment in the Black Ferns’ Rugby World Cup triumph came in the closing minute. The Red Roses had used a penalty to kick to the corner, and from the throw-in that followed they had clearly planned to use a rolling maul to get the ball across the line &#8211; a tactic that had already produced three tries for them during the match and that had been utilised on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Luxon and Willis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Christopher Luxon was, presumably, in his day a dab hand at airline schedules, but he is obviously a little less competent when it comes to running a country. There is a world of difference between focussing on the single objective of the bottom line when running a trading company and facing all of the complex challenges when trying to run a country. We are now seeing evidence that the National [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kick?  No, Run and Pass</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 21:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s narrow and stuttering win against Japan highlighted an affliction that has increasingly handicapped the All Blacks in the modern era. Time and again, the keen-eyed observer will have seen that the first response of an All Black back, finding himself in possession and with space to move, was to kick the ball (or attempt to do so) &#8211; usually with no apparent motive other than to get rid of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Truss and Luxon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 22:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Students of international politics will have registered the disaster created by the new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss &#8211; a disaster which she has now had to disown and reverse. In what was apparently a feeble attempt to emulate “the Iron Lady”, Liz Truss proclaimed that she would cut taxes for the seriously wealthy and “kick-start” the economy as a consequence. In this, she was demonstrating her belief in what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>No Comment?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today’s issue of the Herald is a classic. There is, as is always to be expected, the usual swathe of anti-government commentators &#8211; in this case, John Roughan, Claire Trevett, Steven Joyce, but &#8211; surprisingly &#8211; no report or comment on the resignation from the front bench of National MP, Barbara Kuriger, on the ground of her conflict of interests. The only reference to that matter is an invitation to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Guide to the General Election?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 21:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The results of the local government elections have prompted the right-wing media (which, of course, includes the NZME-owned outlets, such as the Herald), to detect a significant pointer to the outcome of next year’s general election. But is that really the case? Some commentators have already been astute enough to cast doubt on that conclusion and to point out the significant differences between the two polls. The local elections were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Disarmament or MAD?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2022 03:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Roughan has an extraordinary article in today’s Herald. He is normally a measured commentator on public affairs, but in this case, so anxious was he to attack the Prime Minister at any cost that he took aim at the speech she made at the UN on the subject of nuclear weapons and on the wisdom or otherwise of relying on the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD) as the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An American Colony?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Gould]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The end of the Queen’s reign has provided us here in New Zealand with a powerful and prolonged reminder of the extent to which our heritage is bound up with that of the United Kingdom. It may, therefore, be an odd moment to register what is becoming a significant change in our national outlook. The introduction of a direct Air New Zealand flight to New York has immediately followed the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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