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Green with envy

It’s something else being a New Zealander these days. I am writing from the UK, a place I lived in for some years long ago – the icy Thatcher years in the main

In those days, when you mentioned whence you came, a glazed look of bland disinterest would wash over whomever you were talking to and the subject would rapidly change.

With the greatest respect to PM Ardern, it’s not difficult to look like the best leader around right now.

The feeling

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