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.

 

The King's Coronation: 10/10

Its value was in its beauty, its history and the fact most of us had never seen one before. It was everything the royal family and Britain do well.

 

Defence: 7/10

The Government's best moment of the week by a long way. A practical solution, handing out major pay rises to stop people leaving.

 

Meka Whaitiri: 2/10

All that’s wrong with politics these days. Displays of contempt, the Māori Party lied to the speaker and the rules around desertion clearly don’t work. This is the part that was missed - if the numbers were different in the parliament, this could have been a constitutional crisis.

 

Kiri Allan, Jan Tinetti, Meka Whaitiri and Willie Jackson: 2/10

Between their various scandals, misdeeds and sloppiness it simply reminds us what a low rent lot we have running the place.

 

Wayne Smith: 6/10

I think he may have a point about rugby. And given what he did for the All Blacks and the Black Ferns, who can argue with him?

 

Jason Paris: 6/10 

His rant was driven by passion, which is no bad thing, but cheating is a deliberate act. And on that he has no evidence, hence, the trouble he has potentially found himself in.

 

CO2: 2/10

Another fallout from the Marsden closure. A country that can't brew its beer is not a proper country, is it?

 

The rich pay more tax open letter: 1/10

I despair.

 

 

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