The New Zealand Herald

Raybon Kan

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The fallout seems to be along party lines, and even then, not entirely. Absolutely nobody has called for her to resign. The harshest cry is that she pay it back. Can you imagine if this happened in America? The chorus would be yelling: Lock her up!

Then again, whoever launches the biggest stone, has to be careful not to have something more breakable in their closet.

And maybe this is what she knows. Maybe she’s waiting for the serve to come back. And maybe her real weapon is the volley.

Look, it was the 90s. Lance Armstrong was winning bike races.

Winz wasn’t lied to, as such. They simply asked questions with obviously correct answers and obviously incorrect answers. When you check into a flight, those questions with pictures of explosives, aren’t about your luggage: they’re about your IQ. And when Winz asks you a question, the last thing you’d want to say is: um, it’s complicate­d.

Look at it this way. In the 90s, Metiria Turei took out an honesty mortgage. And now, in 2017, she’s decided to pay it off. And because it’s been years, with compound interest, it requires much more honesty to pay it off.

But we’re in 2017, going on 2018. There’s a difference between being an admitted fraudster, and being a fraud. Kids these days are into brand authentici­ty. (Though that term would be met with an emoji of disgust.)

Today, celebritie­s only become more popular after their meltdown, their rehab, or release from prison. Faults are fortes. Anyone who’s untroubled is obviously not looking hard enough.

It can’t be long before an athlete will need a major drug problem before they can advertise cereal. The faces of M&Ms will sport tiny tattoos, inked in prison, and they will not want for employment. The Greens are the party that admitted to smoking weed when it was still

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