John McLean: Unlikely Doctor Te Moke

I’ve just read The Unlikely Doctor, a book about a man who now goes by the name of Timoti Te Moke. The book is written in the first person (“I”), but was in fact written for Te Moke (and the publisher, Allen & Unwin) by a fella named Eugene Bingham. Being a full time medical doctor, Te Moke made it plain, “I ain’t got the time [to write a book]”.

Bob Edlin: It’s a pity Nicola Willis did not answer the atom-splitting question....

It’s a pity Nicola Willis did not answer the atom-splitting question – we want to know what reprisals are on the cards

Paddy Gower was charged with interviewing Finance Minister Nicola Willis for RNZ’s Morning Report about her newly acquired responsibilities as Minister for Economic Growth and what she hopes to accomplish.

Yes, the economy would grow this year, she assured him, although unemployment would lag behind this.

JC: Paddy Throws One on Matters of Race

Joseph Los’e, the Herald’s Kaupapa Maori editor, had an article in Monday’s Herald featuring Paddy Gower and his thoughts on matters of race. Evidently the problems concerning race are, by and large, caused by old white men. There are a number of points Gower made that I, as an old white man, and no doubt others, take issue with. It’s this sort of idiotic comment and analysis that wind old white men up. And not only men and not only Pakeha.