Posts by Ana Simkiss
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I was worried there might be a cleanout of senior (expensive) writers when they freshened up the herald, but it appears not. I hope.
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Hard News: Friday music: Worst DJ ever, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
the Only Ones' classic Another Girl, Another Planet - but how many of the audience would have got that?
Everyone - it's been used for a mobile network ad in the UK for years. Just as long as they didn't get the actual band to perform it - I saw them attempt it and it's just tragic. Drugs are bad mmkay?
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Or it is sufficiently confined to justify retrospective law? As a servant of the law myself I don't favour that approach, but perhaps in this very limited case?
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Hard News: Music: Radio is still relevant, in reply to Sacha,
It goes "noodle noodley noodley". The sound of self indulgence completing a journey up it's own arse.
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Hard News: Music: Radio is still relevant, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Yes I've enjoyed Richard Langston filling in for Chris Laidlaw who has the most amazingly soporific and yet irritating effect on me. Then I tune into the Sunday jazz show on bfm causing me to hurl the radio out the window.
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Hard News: Music: Radio is still relevant,
May I recommend when you're done with country on a Sunday night you switch to George for The Melting Pot. Just look at that playlist. And have a listen here.
DJ is a friend of mine who likes and plays (and mixes!) all things funky, a hip hop flavour but very broad taste. Russell maybe up your alley?
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Hard News: John Banks: The volunteer did…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I hadn't yet jumped over to your post Graeme - I'm largely in agreement although possibly much less sympathetic to Banks' good name. perhaps that is because I would simply love to see him cross examined on what his knowledge actually was..
In relation to (2) I was thinking of the statement in the letter that the police "could not establish" that Banks had the necessary knowledge. I don't think they have to establish that, just that there was sufficiently decent evidence to found a charge. Perhaps this is clumsy drafting I doubt it given the ham-handed way the police have handled other policical & sensitive issues, e.g. the teapot tape charges.
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Hard News: John Banks: The volunteer did…,
I'm a bit less impressed than Graeme with the investigation. Basically that is because (1) I am uncomfortable with factual conclusions being confidently expressed and unqualified where the evidential basis is unclear and (2) the Police appear to have set themselves a very high threshold to lay charges.
One might humbly suggest these are matters for a Court.
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Eden Park this year has worn boat shoes...
an excellent metaphor. Not true I must say for the one match I attended this year there, but then it was the Warriors not the hapless Blues.
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Hard News: The Music for Occasions,
At my dad's funeral there was a LOT of music, including a live jazz band & a full on harmonised rendition of "sunrise sunset" from fiddler on the roof (he was a king of am dram in our little town). Most fitting - and still unlistenable! was Jerusalem. It suited a heathen transplanted Englishman.
I'm going to a funeral on Friday for someone my exact age. If there is no guns n roses we will all be haunted.
Mine will include the theme from "the Snowman" just to get everyone in the (tragic) mood!