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Greatest Hits

This week’s Greatest Hit goes to my favourite NZ politician/DJ hybrid. No, not Kim Dotcom (whose album ‘Good Times’ spurred an active Facebook campaign to get him to Starters Bar during O-Week), but Laneway alumna Jacinda Ardern. After realising her flight from Wellington to Auckland was cancelled, stranding a number of people at the airport, she picked up the last rental car. Rather than dashing away like Paula Bennett with a poor person’s Easter chocolate, she circled back around and picked up three students. Thanks to Jacinda’s generosity, three more people were able to make it home for the holidays. I can only assume the lucky passengers were treated to a seven hour playlist of DJ Ardern’s favourite tracks.

Greatest Shits

If there’s one MP that’s good for banter, it’s Clare Curran. The Dunedin South resident constantly provides me with glorious, laugh-out-loud Tweets, and I live for the day when she’ll let me interview her. That is, so long as she doesn’t pash me. On a recent episode of 7Days, Clare Curran ended her Yes Minister segment by planting a kiss on the lips of comedian Tim Batt. While I admire her forwardness and don’t deny that MPs should be able to find love in whatever hopeless place they deem fit, it’s not exactly what I like to see on national television. At least she’s not afraid to truly engage with voters.