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Politics

Queen’s Birthday Honours

I am increasingly impressed with The Spinoff’s more in-depth coverage of politics at a local level than the mainstream media (TV or newspaper). Even if you don’t always agree with the conclusions of their articles, you certainly have a lot of material to think about – rather than repeating what other people have tweeted (I’m looking at you, TVNZ).

With the knighting of our former Prime Minister in the QB honours list (Former PM John Key tops Queen’s Birthday honours with knighthood for services to the state | Stuff.co.nz), the following two articles made good reading today: