Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily in partnership with the Brain Drink, Ārepa. Today on The Spinoff, a monumental ranking of all 28 of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher titles, a Christmas gift guide for the food and drink lovers in your life and a buzzy story about a guy making music with PlayStation controllers. But first, a recession, you say?
Anna Rawhiti-Connell: “Over the last few decades New Zealand has experienced several recessions. There was a relatively brief one in 2020 as the economy reacted to the shock of the pandemic, but the last enduring recession was in 2008. That means an entire generation – anyone under 30 – hasn’t really ever experienced a recession. The Spinoff didn’t even exist in 2008. Facebook was a mere two years on from calling itself The Facebook. People still rented DVDs. Our current prime minister was first elected an MP towards the end of 2008 and our one of youngest MPs, Chlöe Swarbrick was 14 years old. The Reserve Bank is now forecasting that New Zealand will enter recession from mid-next year and that it may last for four quarters – a whole year. So what should we expect?”
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While billionaires build bunkers in Queenstown, Julie Scott, CEO of the Community Housing Trust is building affordable homes with profits made by new suburb developers. On this week’s When the Facts Change she explains how inclusionary rezoning can make the rapidly expanding region affordable for locals again. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Winamp 3.0 or wherever you listen to podcasts.
A Kirihimete gift guide for people who love eating and drinking Charlotte Muru-Lanning: “Christmas gifting often gets a bad rap, and with good reason. The jam-packed malls, the month-long flurry of panicked purchases, the endless cards waved over endless Eftpos machines: Christmas can easily become a manifestation of all the worst aspects of consumerism and excessive consumption. Giving a gift can also be an expression of love for those you care about, though. To me, the perfect gift is all at once meaningful, indulgent, useful and whimsical. And the beauty of gifts that revolve around food is that they almost always have at the very least a couple of these qualities. Convinced, but stuck for ideas? Here’s a collection of food-related gifts that almost anyone would love to receive.”
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All 28 of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels ranked from worst to best Claire Murdoch: “In March 2020, when New Zealand went into that first lockdown, hard and early, like Jack Reacher would enter an eight-against-one alley fight, I decided to read all of Lee Child’s Reacher novels, plus the short stories, plus all the ephemera, in order of publication. It started by accident when I found one – the jokey compendium Reacher’s Rules (not ranked) – in a ‘little library’, – but then I read them one after another after another. I read them late into the night, every night. According to my e-reader, within two months, Read Every Reacher was Mission: Accomplished.”
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