LBJ’s first job after college was as a teacher in Cotulla, Texas, in a small Mexican-American school. Few of them could speak English. he would beat Mexican children who spoke Spanish in the playground because he knew how important it was for them to learn English.
Behind the coverage of David Seymour’s rise in the polls and Maori Language Week lurk inconvenient truths. Graham Adams argues journalists need to be more even-handed to maintain their credibility.
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IN THE HULLABALOO that followed Curia’s poll results last week, the media focused mainly on the startling fact that National’s support had collapsed to 21.3 per cent — with all its dire implications for Judith Collins continuing as the party’s leader.
Predictably, the dismal figures spawned a flurry of articles predicting a palace coup — with the rider that the mutiny could not be immediate because Level 4 lockdown prevented the party’s Auckland MPs flying to Wellington en masse to disembowel their leader in person. A coup conducted over Zoom would have been unseemly and presumably unsatisfying to those consumed with blood lust.
The fact that Act reached its highest number in any poll — at 14.9 per cent…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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