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  • Fry Up: Gold medal submission

    There will be plenty of medals given out at the Olympic Games for ‘sports’ like canoe slalom, but another sedentary sport - that of writing submissions - will not be recognised. And that’s a shame, because public comment on the business of government is vital.

  • Fry Up: Three things that go ouch

    It’s a cruel world and the best advice when you’re lying face down in a pool of tears is to get over it. Harden up. Move on. Even if the bullets hurt.

  • Fry Up - Kitchen cabinet revisited

    At 5am, while the hippies and the strikers slept, the high ranking members of a Certain Political Party gathered for a Kitchen Cabinet (KC) to discuss strategy.

  • Fry Up: Ingredients

    It was our leader in nation building, the Minister for Science and Innovation et al, Steven Joyce, who said: “You don’t just have money, a bunch of scientists, stir, and ‘voila’, an innovative thing occurs.”

  • Fry Up: Stephen

    A different Fry made it easy to come up with material this week. When British Twitter pal Stephen Fry made the announcement on Monday that he didn’t much fancy New Zealand broadband, the Telecom PR machine went into overdrive - providing plenty of amusement for delegates at the Commerce Commission’s broadband conference. They were treated to a reading from the chair of a statement from the telco given to the media that afternoon – adding a little light relief to an intense first day.

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