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So much noise and so much confusion, and yet what a time for hope this is. Hope and hard work, that is, because despite appearances this election is not be about gangs and race. New Hopetown post on Substack today #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
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Come for the politics stay for the music. My Hopetown substack this week has 2 (!) extraordinary versions of Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons, full of hope for humanity and the planet simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
Come for the politics stay for the music. My Hopetown substack this week has 2 (!) extraordinary versions of Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons, full of hope for humanity and the planet simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
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Simon's always a great and thoughtful read.
My Hopetown post on Substack this wknd features gangs + politicians incl Rob Muldoon, Max Harris, pay equity + Chloe Swarbrick: “That tells you everything that you need to know. This is not so much a cost-of-living crisis as it is a cost-of-greed crisis”
simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
My Hopetown post on Substack this wknd features gangs + politicians incl Rob Muldoon, Max Harris, pay equity + Chloe Swarbrick: “That tells you everything that you need to know. This is not so much a cost-of-living crisis as it is a cost-of-greed crisis”
simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
New Substack post at Hopetown: Politicians and gangs, Tāmaki kids, pay equity and Chloe v Q simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
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"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand"
*monkey's paw curls*
ALT john oliver quoting me on a Kiwibank's sexy sheep
Breaking: @nzgreens policy for 284,000 new jobs: “Productive investment that aligns with industry policy objectives, decarbonisation and decent work principles.” It’s not that hard
nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/e…
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This election, the issue of child poverty has been swallowed up by "no new taxes". How did that happen and what should we do about it? New Substack post at Hopetown substack.com/home/post/p-219…
This election, the issue of child poverty has been swallowed up by "no new taxes". How did that happen and what should we do about it? New Substack post at Hopetown substack.com/home/post/p-219…
The Prefu’s defective, Opp’s got bottom lines and Luxon’s got “balls”, but Chloe doesn’t know finance? ICYMI my Hopetown post on Substack over the weekend simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
National's culture of not caring + what Luxon's "we've got the balls” really means, Opp's bottom lines, the defective Prefu, super-intelligent Trump and why is everyone losing their shit about Chloe Swarbrick wanting finance? New Substack post at Hopetown substack.com/home/post/p-218…
My Listener column on rough sleepers, move-on orders and the wonderful Helen Robinson at the Akl City Mission is now online ($) but you can also read it in the magazine in shops this week
nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/…
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thank you @simonbwilson
So here's what the great Aussie writer Richard Flanagan said about the ScoMo govt: The Liberals' "final decadent phase, a rabble characterised by slease, scandal and self-interest” and when they fell "eerily like the Soviet communists of the 1980s, were suddenly an anachronism.”
