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Greatest Hits

Recently Back Benches featured a number of youths. Hailing from Labour, National, Greens, NZ First, and ACT, these youths had a go at hashing out a few pressing issues. They also had a go at each other. This week’s Greatest Hit goes to an amazing call from ACT’s Louis Houlbrooke, who, fed up with the ‘70s-dressed Curwen Rolinson of NZ First, yelled “the only thing bigger than your tie is your ego.”

Greatest Shits

If I didn’t make it clear enough last week, I’m not exactly Cameron Slater, aka Whale Oil’s, biggest fan. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to his contribution to the Tania Billingsley chat, and lo and behold, he didn’t disappoint. First, he tried to argue the whole affair was a smear campaign by the left; second, he tried to say rape culture doesn’t exist in New Zealand, something even Paula Bennett disagrees with. Describing his coverage as insensitive and oblivious is pretty euphemistic.