Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: Where and how home-educated students learn, who won what at the Metro restaurant awards last night and why some of Auckland’s most dedicated film geeks (plus Lyric Waiwiri-Smith) watched movies for 24 hours straight last weekend. But first: The losers, losers and other losers in the one-year-on polling.
Toby Manhire: “Loser: the mojo. In the lead-up to the election, Christopher Luxon diagnosed a malaise: New Zealand had become negative, wet, whiny and inward-looking and, more to the point, urgently needed to ‘get our mojo back’. Disappointingly, the new 1News/Verian poll did not ask people for their status vis a vis negativity, wetness, whine or inward gaze, nor, alas, where they would place themselves on the mojo meter. It did, however, ask what sort of shape respondents felt the country was in. Only 30% thought the country in better shape than a year ago, with 26% saying there was no difference. Forty per cent, meanwhile, reckoned the country was in worse shape than before the election.”
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The losers, losers and other losers in the one-year-on polling
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