“essentially a literary gossip column” – CK Stead, 18 April 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
NZ Listener letter of the month #1
There have been no Waikato
Times letters of the month for a
while, because the paper hasn’t published
any over the holidays: normal service will resume shortly. So while we’re all waiting,
here is one from the 23 January issue of the Listener:
Celebrating End to
Tariffs
The Listener
wonders why New Zealanders are not dancing in the streets at the World Trade
Organisation’s announced removal of food-export barriers (Editorial, January 16). There are many reasons. […]
Economist Milton Keynes pointed out that exporting means
giving up assets of real value in exchange for unreliable money, so should be
limited by sensible domestic economies. […]
Gavin Maclean
(Cullerlie, Gisborne)
So here is a concert from Milton Keynes: two hours of
Metallica in 1993, kicking off with “Creeping Death”.
2 comments:
Steve Bell
said...
I assumed the town of Milton Keynes was probably named after John Maynard Keynes and John Milton - a kind of "two cultures" thing.
But no: there was a village of the name already on the site: Milton was "middle town" and Keynes was Cahaines, a Norman landowner.
You learn something every day. Well two things already this morning: I alos now know what "pseudopenannular" means. And it's only 6:36 am!
2 comments:
I assumed the town of Milton Keynes was probably named after John Maynard Keynes and John Milton - a kind of "two cultures" thing.
But no: there was a village of the name already on the site: Milton was "middle town" and Keynes was Cahaines, a Norman landowner.
You learn something every day. Well two things already this morning: I alos now know what "pseudopenannular" means. And it's only 6:36 am!
Thank you! I did not know that. But I will have to look up "pseudopenannular".
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