Simon Wilson
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Politics / climate / urban issues / culture // Hopetown substack @simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com // City Desk column NZ Listener
Free speech, hate speech and Brian Tamaki: new Substack post today at Hopetown
“It is very hard," said Helen Clark, "to accept this will never happen again.” New Hopetown substack today on yesterday's celebration of Jools and Lynda Topp.
With the rosters of the European teams serving as the best advertisement for immigration you could imagine, the big game unfolding on everyone’s TV screens will be the World v Donald Trump. My Hopetown post today, free to all
"People used to talk about late-stage capitalism, but then capitalism said hold my beer you fucking libtards it’s party time." ... My new post at Hopetown on the FIFA World Cup’s glorification of Donald Trump and why I’ll be watching anyway
In the late 1970s, one of the great things about visiting Auckland was listening to a pair of buskers who drew astonishingly large crowds on Queen St: original songs full of politics sung in perfect precision harmonies. Wow. Now Jools Topp has died. Haere rā e hine. Untouchable forever
ICYMI, yesterday I launched my Substack. It's called Hopetown and you can follow or subscribe for free, right here: