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secondzeit.bsky.social

Journalist in Christchurch, New Zealand. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). Author of The Quiet Hero (2023), the story of a peaceful NZ volunteer's death in Ukraine. "Woke gronk" (X, 2024).

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Peter Dutton LOSES his seat of Dickson in stunning victory www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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I’m glad we cleared that up

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We definitely need to adopt democracy sausage as a tradition in NZ

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Great interview with Ockham-shortlisted novelist Laurence Fearnley

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Arts outnumber sports 3-1 on the front page of @thepress.co.nz

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www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3606...

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REVIEW: This is a terrific piece of work, beautifully shot and deftly assembled, that anyone who cares about the music, or about damned good documentary making, will appreciate very much. Go and see it.

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newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/02/b...

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Different times

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Interesting to see the choice of words for Bob Jones; 1 News goes for “outspoken businessman” and “feisty”.

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Library haul

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A challenge to TV news editors: find the footage of Jones giving the fingers to anti-tour protesters.

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John Minto on that Bob Jones photo: "Bob Jones got out of his car and with a fag hanging out of his mouth gave the protest the fingers in vigorous fashion. It made great TV. Thanks Bob - the flow of donations to Halt All Racist Tours for the campaign to stop the 1981 tour spiked the week after."

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The time Denis O'Rourke heckled Bob Jones. www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/ch...

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I liked the thing about Bob Jones preferring to hire people with classics degrees not business degrees

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RIP to the star of this astonishing photo

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The last few months have made me have to reconsider my disnissal at the time of Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR. He was definitely cooking, wasn’t he? There will be a White House strewn with empty Chinese takeout containers and aides who have shot themselves www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Wasn't this rain supposed to have stopped by now?

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I think Abby Wakefield on 1News just did the all time best piece to camera in terrible weather

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The Last Conversation of Francis

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"I don't know what the big deal is. I love all my children." www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

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Tough on law and order, and tough on bad weather

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Christchurch is in a state of emergency

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Don't take the weather with you

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Red wind warning. Watch out for the red wind.

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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Ralph Fiennes dancing to "Emotional Rescue" in A Bigger Splash

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Appropriate for Christchurch and Wellington today

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Māori scholar Mākereti Papakura formally matriculated to Oxford University in 1927 to read Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Tragically, Mākereti died in 1930, just weeks before she was due to present her thesis.

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No one saw the Carney go

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Robert Kitchen is one of the most badass photographers in Wellington. This was taken last second after a media interview just on my office couch.

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Pope Donald the Unworthy

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Listening

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Some people want to put tariffs on imported culture wars

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Labour mental health spokesperson Ingrid Leary said it was Doocey’s job “to know this stuff”. Leary said the proposal to close the service “reduces mental health care to a transactional inputs model rather than measuring outcomes across different needs and populations”. #nzpol

Peter Dutton LOSES his seat of Dickson in stunning victory www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I’m glad we cleared that up

We definitely need to adopt democracy sausage as a tradition in NZ

Great interview with Ockham-shortlisted novelist Laurence Fearnley

Arts outnumber sports 3-1 on the front page of @thepress.co.nz

www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3606...

REVIEW: This is a terrific piece of work, beautifully shot and deftly assembled, that anyone who cares about the music, or about damned good documentary making, will appreciate very much. Go and see it.

newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/02/b...

Different times

Interesting to see the choice of words for Bob Jones; 1 News goes for “outspoken businessman” and “feisty”.

Library haul

A challenge to TV news editors: find the footage of Jones giving the fingers to anti-tour protesters.

John Minto on that Bob Jones photo: "Bob Jones got out of his car and with a fag hanging out of his mouth gave the protest the fingers in vigorous fashion. It made great TV. Thanks Bob - the flow of donations to Halt All Racist Tours for the campaign to stop the 1981 tour spiked the week after."

The time Denis O'Rourke heckled Bob Jones. www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/ch...

I liked the thing about Bob Jones preferring to hire people with classics degrees not business degrees

RIP to the star of this astonishing photo

The last few months have made me have to reconsider my disnissal at the time of Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR. He was definitely cooking, wasn’t he? There will be a White House strewn with empty Chinese takeout containers and aides who have shot themselves www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Wasn't this rain supposed to have stopped by now?

I think Abby Wakefield on 1News just did the all time best piece to camera in terrible weather

The Last Conversation of Francis

"I don't know what the big deal is. I love all my children." www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Tough on law and order, and tough on bad weather

Christchurch is in a state of emergency

Don't take the weather with you

Red wind warning. Watch out for the red wind.

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Ralph Fiennes dancing to "Emotional Rescue" in A Bigger Splash

Appropriate for Christchurch and Wellington today

Māori scholar Mākereti Papakura formally matriculated to Oxford University in 1927 to read Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Tragically, Mākereti died in 1930, just weeks before she was due to present her thesis.

No one saw the Carney go

Robert Kitchen is one of the most badass photographers in Wellington. This was taken last second after a media interview just on my office couch.

Pope Donald the Unworthy

Listening

Some people want to put tariffs on imported culture wars

Labour mental health spokesperson Ingrid Leary said it was Doocey’s job “to know this stuff”. Leary said the proposal to close the service “reduces mental health care to a transactional inputs model rather than measuring outcomes across different needs and populations”. #nzpol

"Day's full of rain Sky's coming down again"

Almodovar 👑 variety.com/2025/film/ne...