Cabinet agrees to keep supermarket break-up option in back pocket stuff.co.nz/business/13254…

A big dump from MBIE today stuff.co.nz/business/13270…

News that merits attention from my colleague Rob Stock thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…

Union and BusinessNZ commissioned reports go head to head on ‘greedflation’ thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…

A reminder why scrapping the Clean Car Discount shouldn't make a lot of difference if the Clean Car Standard is still in place (in a nutshell, 1 or 1 = 1) thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…

Home solar systems or solar farms? The economic arguments seem pretty clear. thepost.co.nz/a/business/350…

In case anyone thought cutting public service jobs was going to be easy: thepost.co.nz/business/35011…

Come on @countdownnz, if your Crofton Downs store is closed for 2.5 days due to a flood, surely you could message on your website to stop people driving there?

Seems fair imo EVs pay same RUCs as average car would. Could argue unfair efficient petrol cars pay less than inefficient ones, but convenient system and petrol efficiency not bad proxy for axle weight. EVs still save heaps in fuel. Scaring people unhelpful. Time to move on, imo.

Good piece thepost.co.nz/world-news/350…

DOC job ad for senior communications adviser: "You'll need to be a strategic thinker, someone who can see the bigger picture and make connections ... and comfortable with ambiguity." Um, what? careers.doc.govt.nz/jobtools/jncus…

Media & Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith responds to RNZ boss' backing for a levy to help fund the media: thepost.co.nz/business/35026…

Blimey. Just discovered Keir Starmer grew up in my home town. No, don't know him. He is a several years older than me, thank you. As surprisingly, also found out there must (have) be(en) a factory somewhere near Oxted... labour.org.uk/updates/press-….

Just dredging this one up in case anyone is confused about what a 'capital income tax' is likely to be thepost.co.nz/business/35033…

Seem to have brought back an unwanted souvenir from Rarotonga this week. Tremendous care provided today by the great people at Wellington A&E.

Is there any way to filter out tweets that contain the phrase ‘let that sink in’? I read it. I don’t need time for it to ‘sink in’.

Deja vu? Amazon's statement in 2021: stuff.co.nz/business/12646…

I believe there's a Michael Scott in Wellington who lost their phone on Bowen Street this morning; the 'if found' number just rung the phone - so it's been handed to the security staff (the ones who man the scanners) at Parliament.