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I think it probably does transfer through. If you look at his overseas press coverage it's so different from the Winston we get here, and he seems well-respected. I've never seen him trolling foriegn press. It tends to look more like this.
It's like he's two different people.
Yeah, back when I lived in the city I used to like visiting here in autumn because it felt like getting extra summer. Now I'm acclimatised it just feels like winter to me though. 🙃
Feeling a bit sorry for the oldest of the plants, they did not sign up to be eaten for so long! Will have to see if I can mix up some fertilizer for them as a consolation.
No, it's not. It involves a lot of meetings with counterparts and diplomats. I shouldn't imagine it's much different than other ministerial positions i.e they all have speechwriters for public events (and civil servants to advise them), and while they are in charge of overseeing policy and action, I hope that no minister unilaterally drives New Zealand's entire policy around their portfolio.
Domestically, I feel like he is a troll.
But in Foriegn Affairs I have liked how active and informed he is, and in my experience his office is always better to correspond with than many other ministers because it seems to always be across whatever obscure foriegn policy thing I'm talking about rather than giving me off-topic form letters.
I guess an example of this side of Winston is this speech at the UN. I of course often wish our foriegn policy stances went a lot further, but he gave a speech that was much better than I would expect given our current centre-right leadership and it balanced our need to remain on good terms with the US with our independent voice.
When UNRWA was accused of terrorism, and many western allies suspended funding to it, NZ only followed suit temporarily while Foriegn Affairs looked into the veracity of those claims. Our payments resumed when it was disproved - and in the interim, we funded humanitarian relief in other ways.
This) is another Winston UN speech on our stance that I liked.
In late breaking garden news there are six caterpillars that I can see. We don't have a lot of good foliage so I will have to move some of them from plant to plant.
Also the magnolia is flowering but I will have to reset my pixelfed password to post pictures!
I was so confused by this conversation until I saw your name.
The one thing I usually like about Winston is his foriegn policy work, which he has been doing on and off for a long time.
I really, really hope that isn't about to change. Luxon is not the sharpest pencil in the box.
That's my gut feeling too. Im not a medical doctor but the lungs are delicate and complex and coating everything in there with chemical-laced humectant doesn't seem like a great idea.
Plus, the vaping industry seems to be the tobacco industry.
We don't yet have good longitudinal studies, and the short term effects are already pretty bad, so in my opinion there's no reason to believe claims that vaping will not have serious long-term effects.
It's disappointing to see this kind of thinking. Apart from being inhuman this would probably tank productivity because of presenteeism.
The numbers might stack up even more in their favour. The .com I wanted, it's $1000 per month or $30k to own. It used to be owned by an old man who used it for his personal page and there are almost no commercial entity named that. So weird.