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The Pringle Effect, AI costs, IRD spirits, Green gobbledygook

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NBR Staff Fri, 20 Mar 2026
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If money was no object, what price would you put on your privacy? That was the question percolating in Private Bin’s mind this week after reading NBR’s story about how wealthy New Zealand businessman Matthew Pringle overturned a costs order in the UK Court of Appeal linked to his long-running

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