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Bring out the shovels

Now all we need is an alien invasion. One can’t be far off. After all, alien ships were recently sighted above the United States. Possibly. And what did the Americans do about the alien invasion? They shot down its balloon and blamed the Chinese for spying on them. I’d have thought that both the aliens and the Chinese would have had more sophisticated space or spy craft, but I am not an expert on either aliens or the Chinese.

I might ask Mike Hosking and Kate Hawkesby, those world-renowned meteorologists, seers, soothsayers and mentalists, as well as partners in life and in theories about everything. They confidently predicted on their Newstalk ZB programmes, not an

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