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❚ Can we just take a moment to thank the Standard team for their excellent coverage of Massey University’s Don Brash ban. Even out of touch, irrelevant dinosaurs like Brash deserve free speech.

❚ Text re FMG Building not having bilingual (Ma¯ori) version. My response question would be why? It not being a state-owned organisation, powers that be deemed it unnecessary.

❚ Tailgating is a national disease and not confined to any age or gender. Verity, I am a very tall bearded male and I get it all the time.

❚ So Jono and Ben is being replaced by political comedy Ross Bridges?

❚ Institutional racism? Ma¯ori All Blacks? How do we get away with it?

❚ Once yearly ‘‘free’’ diabetes check with your GP is no longer free. Thank you Labour Government. When will we lose our pension?

❚ So Ardern doesn’t want refugees to respect New Zealand values. Maybe she should go further and start proclaiming sharia law. Well at least they won’t have to respect Ardern because I sure as hell don’t.

❚ Tory party in turmoil. Oh dear, how sad, too bad.

❚ Soymun Brudges must be on his last legs as National leader now. Any more tapes of him and Ross speaking like that will turn every voter in the world off.