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Simon Wilson retweeted
"...the billionaires who own the social-media algorithms, who own the cable TV networks, who own the politicians fighting on our screens, they want us at each other’s throats. They want us focused on how we’re different, instead of how we’re the same...
One day to go and here’s some inspiration for y’all #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
One day to go and here’s some inspiration for y’all #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
Simon Wilson retweeted
The so-called heretic Sir Lloyd Geering died today, aged 108. The Press has reprinted my interview (his last ever) from 2025. thepress.co.nz/nz-news/36111…
There wouldn’t even be a desperate attempt by National’s own “supporters” to engineer an overhang if the fear-mongering Simeon Brown hadn’t dug this hole for his own party. If Luxon hadn’t given him the keys to the digger. Today’s Substack post at Hopetown simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
Simon Wilson retweeted
"Luxon thought Chris Hipkins was the enemy. And then it was Qiulae Wong. And now it’s Chlöe Swarbrick. But his real enemies are on the right. His own side." New Substack today at Hopetown
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"Luxon thought Chris Hipkins was the enemy. And then it was Qiulae Wong. And now it’s Chlöe Swarbrick. But his real enemies are on the right. His own side." New Substack today at Hopetown
simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
Simon Wilson retweeted
Why hasn't NZ health minister @SimeonBrownMP been sacked?
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Are voters allowed to have bottom lines? Here's mine. I have spent my life believing that if I or my children need hospital care, we will get it. It’s a fundamental tenet of our welfare state. But it's no longer true. New Substack post at Hopetown today.
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Simon Wilson retweeted
“This isn’t a competent government with a plan to fix the economy. Its record instead is of economic mismanagement, privatisation by stealth, crony corruption, climate denialism, expensive populist promises, abject incompetence in health & a still-rising cost of living.” @simonbwilson’s blistering indictment of current #NZ govt: simonwilsonhopetown.substack… #nzpol
Stick to the plan? Here's my take on that plan. New Substack post today at Hopetown simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
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…
Simon Wilson retweeted
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…
Simon Wilson retweeted
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…