Geoff Kemp

University of Auckland. Intellectual history, politics, media. Own views, retweets not necessarily.

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@LaraMGreaves Well done you!

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@MelodyRules_ Bad Sun - The Bravery

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@DrAdrianBlau I'd ask him who's the Thomas Hobbes not of Malmesbury who's causing the confusion (do we know?)

[Project for Public Interest Media @The_BigQ]

"I saw my father alive, dead, and buried, the threefold process that’s at once so ordinary and so extraordinary, and tragically has become more ordinary in the UK in these extraordinary times." @KempGeoff @PoliAuckland @ArtsAucklandUni #Covid_19 #NHS
https://t.co/3xoMqu7Tc0

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

The longer I live in New Zealand the weirder the UK electoral system seems, when a party's 2% vote increase = 14% more seats

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

Grimly fascinating thread

[Scott Hamilton RTM @SikotiHamiltonR]

1 For some people, historic architecture means castles, churches, marae. Lately, tho, the old buildings that fascinate me are the toilet blocks of small town NZ. I became immoderately excited by this photo, which shows the opening of Kaitaia's segregated rest rooms (short thread)

[Vincent O'Malley @vomalley]

Cool to see 'The Great War for New Zealand' make this list.

Decade in review: 10 defining New Zealand books of the 2010s https://t.co/rJvVpoKpck

[John @Mick_Lellan]

NZ Archives will limit the hours they're publicly accessible next year.

This will savage the productivity of those studying NZ - those that help us understand our country better.

Anna Green sums up the problems well & why we should all be up in arms:
https://t.co/fCv9tS39YG

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

Local tui keeps whistling Oh When the Saints Saints Saints (go marching in). Haven't heard such a recognisable tune on repeat like this before.

[Lainey 🌻 @NZLainey]

Photobombed by a Tūī from stage right!

#onlyinaotearoa 💙💚

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@johnalan57 "Mind me baubles"
"You've stubbled me sword"
"Paint me warts, an' all"

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

If you'd asked me for one surefire political prediction when I first voted (Makerfield, 1983), I'd have told you that Wigan wouldn't be an important target seat for the Tories in my lifetime.

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@MarshsLibrary Great stuff. The lottery presenters using paper knives seemed quite eighteenth century too.

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

News priorities

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

Chance for Broad at mid-on to do 'shocked face' for real.

[The ACC @TheACCnz]

Worst dropped catch in the history of Tests? https://t.co/gvLTLmNUDG

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@JeremyReesnz and often invoked without real explanation, as in the article.

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@nabeelz Aside from the technology that ends the need to read handwritten exams.

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

Bad news. Hope this gets an official response @BLACKCAPS

[Jofra Archer @JofraArcher]

A bit disturbing hearing racial insults today whilst battling to help save my team , the crowd was been amazing this week except for that one guy , @TheBarmyArmy was good as usual also

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@craig_walmsley Fifth on the table, hope for a top four finish.

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

@1NRSmith Having owned two baby goats who grew into big butting goats, I'm not so sure.

[Geoff Kemp @KempGeoff]

The Guardian: 'Bulging at the seams': Auckland, a super city struggling with its own success.
https://t.co/RDg2MoBALE

via @GoogleNews