At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all.
 
Newshub Poll: 9/10
"Because it was worth its weight in gold, in terms of its reaction."
 
The Reaction to the Poll: 7/10
"Between the announcement of the plan out of Covid, the RSE expansion, and the cycle bridge back down, it's been many a year since a government freaked out so spectacularly to one set of numbers."
 
The Poll Numbers Themselves: 7/10
"The sub questions in the poll were the clue.
Even Labour and Green voters thought the cycle bridge was dumb and even the Labour and Green voters thought farmers and tradies not being carved out of the ute tax was dumb.
It was an astonishing insight into how out of touch Labour really are."
 
Te Huia: 1/10
"Give it up.
$26,000 a day to run, $2000 in income, so a loss of $24,000 a day. Not to mention carriages that fall off the train.
No one is on board, literally or figuratively."
 
The Reserve Bank: 2/10
Worst week in a while.
Another new policy to try and tie down the housing market having failed at every hurdle so far.
And the confession at Select Committee that they’ve got their house forecasts wrong for 10 years."
 
Waikato Expressway Speed Limit: 8/10
"110 kilometres an hour all the way, in a world where 110 is a rare old thing.
Well, legally anyway."
 
MacLean's College Being Reprimanded for Expelling a Student for Swearing: 3/10
"And you wonder why recruitment is an issue? When the respect is gone, why would you bother?
And in today's world, not just that, but you got to say sorry as well.
It's a lowest common denominator kind of world."
 
The Olympics: 9/10
"Because they pulled it off.
It wasn’t the super-spreader they said it would be.
You can run an event even in a mess of a country outside the bubble."
 
The First Bledisloe Test: 7/10
"Are we going to see a proper contest? Hope so."
 
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