Philip Matthews

Don’t know

Another movie to upset the anti-Ardern fanatics

Hit the north

Red-zoned cliff-top site sells for 33 times RV The sale is a windfall for the Christchurch City Council, which gets to keep half the proceeds.

The sale is a windfall for the Christchurch City Council, which gets to keep half the proceeds.

More Mauger, mate

Bell’s back baby

Thanks

Maybe we'll get a Wings sequel

Dr Jane Goodall, an elderly woman dressed in beige slacks, a cream turtleneck and red scarf standing in a grassy area with people, trees and plants in the background. Jane Goodall touring Richmond Community Garden. In copyright CCL. CCL-RCG-IMG_7991.

Dr Jane Goodall with volunteers during a tour of Richmond Community Garden as part of her visit to answer questions and sign copies of her books. 30 May 2019.
📷Jane Goodall touring Richmond Community Garden. In copyright CCL. CCL-RCG-IMG_7991.
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cheers Quentin

Published on John Lennon’s birthday

Book of the Week: To Chris with love NZ's best book reviewer on a major biography of the caustic, abrasive, sarcastic and loveable Chris Knox.

My review of the Chris Knox biography.

Book of the Week: To Chris with love newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/b...

I’d like to think that if TS Eliot had a job writing about comedians for a newspaper, he might have started a story like this

Diddy sentencing: music mogul jailed for more than four years

Begging for mercy at federal court in Manhattan, Combs, his hair and beard grey due to being unable to access dye behind bars, sobbed while admitting his behaviour was “disgusting”

At the back of an Anglican church in north Canterbury

Clinical psychologist Nigel Latta has died, aged 58 Latta, who had cancer, died on Tuesday, according to his official Facebook page.

Very sad news www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

You try to tell young people about the nightmare of resetting the clock on the VCR twice a year and they don’t believe you

That’s a no from New Zealand

The Post denounces National's plans to strip 55,000 people of their votes as anti-democratic. Then they hide this democratic message behind a paywall.

So: fuck the paywall, here it is archive.ph/tdO56

Say no to less democracy EDITORIAL: Electoral changes should be opposed.

@thepost-nz.bsky.social editorial: Say no to less democracy

“With democracy increasingly under threat worldwide, there is no tangible reason to make voting harder in New Zealand. But that is exactly what the Government has proposed.”
#nzpol

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Palestine decision due around 11am our time

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Winners and losers in the great South Island population shift By 2053 Selwyn is projected to overtake Dunedin as the island’s second-largest district, while Queenstown will break into the top five.

Over the next three decades, the South Island’s population will concentrate in fast-growing lifestyle districts such as Selwyn and Queenstown, while many traditional centres stagnate or shrink.

‘Sadly missed’: New Zealand’s oldest man dies aged 108 The former prisoner of war attributed his longevity to never smoking or drinking.

I think this means Lloyd Geering is now the oldest man in NZ. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...

Electoral Amendment Bill: Submitters want fewer restrictions, more sausages The government's Electoral Amendment Bill has faced a deluge of criticism as submissions were heard at Parliament on Thursday.

The most obvious explanation is once again proven true: barring enrolments during advance voting was purely a pretext to deny franchise to a group of people who vote mostly against govt parties, so as to avoid the govt losing seats between election-night & final counts www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Prime Minister is a close-up view of extraordinary times REVIEW: I hope those who dislike Jacinda Ardern still make a couple of hours to see Prime Minister. I reckon you’ll be impressed at how deftly the film has been assembled and at the astonishing acces...

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A great piece

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

‘Simply put, the genocide must end,’ former PM Jacinda Ardern says “There is a path to stopping the genocide still happening daily before us,” she wrote in an opinion piece for The Guardian.

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Penman on Eno is real brilliance