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Philip Matthews
@secondzeit.bsky.social
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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.
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · Dec 1
Someday this war’s gonna end
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe we'll get a Wings sequel
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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 1d
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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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.
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 1d
cheers Quentin
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 1d
Published on John Lennon’s birthday
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 1d
My review of the Chris Knox biography.

Book of the Week: To Chris with love newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/b...
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.
newsroom.co.nz
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 6d
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
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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 6d
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”
Diddy sentencing: music mogul jailed for more than four years
www.thetimes.com
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 7d
At the back of an Anglican church in north Canterbury
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 9d
Very sad news www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Clinical psychologist Nigel Latta has died, aged 58
Latta, who had cancer, died on Tuesday, according to his official Facebook page.
www.thepress.co.nz
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 11d
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
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 13d
That’s a no from New Zealand
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 13d
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
archive.ph
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Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 13d
@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

www.thepost.co.nz/a/nz-news/36...
Say no to less democracy
EDITORIAL: Electoral changes should be opposed.
www.thepost.co.nz
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 13d
Palestine decision due around 11am our time

www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
The Press
www.thepress.co.nz
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thepress.co.nz
The Press @thepress.co.nz · 13d
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.
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.
www.thepress.co.nz
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 13d
I think this means Lloyd Geering is now the oldest man in NZ. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...
‘Sadly missed’: New Zealand’s oldest man dies aged 108
The former prisoner of war attributed his longevity to never smoking or drinking.
www.nzherald.co.nz
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 15d
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...
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.
www.rnz.co.nz
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 15d
www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...
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...
www.thepost.co.nz
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 16d
A great piece
newsroom.co.nz
Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 16d
From ReadingRoom: The legendary George Henderson responds to a new book on popular music in NZ
Book of the Week: On the Michael King of NZ music history
newsroom.co.nz
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16d
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?
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 20d
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
‘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.
www.stuff.co.nz
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 21d
Penman on Eno is real brilliance
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22d
Issue 47.17 is now online, featuring:

@paullaity.bsky.social on the preventable death of his daughter Martha
Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein
Sheila Fitzpatrick on snitching
Ian Penman on Brian Eno
and a cover by Johnny Bunting.

Read now at www.lrb.co.uk
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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 23d
Kia ora to the judges for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social is convenor of the judging panel for the General Non-Fiction Award, & Claudia Jardine in the panel to judge the Mary & Peter Biggs Award for Poetry.
www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 24d
According to his Facebook page, Life in One Chord star Shayne Carter is doing solo gigs in Nelson, Blenheim, Lyttelton, Oamaru, Invercargill and Hokitika next month
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