Philip Matthews

Almost the last NZ journalist on Twitter. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. These opinions are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.

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Forever haunted by this image/moment

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@PronouncedHare Yes

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His one about the French was better

[Liam Hehir @PronouncedHare]

David Seymour: "it was a joke"

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@wassdoc @IsraelInstNZ No it doesn’t. Since then more than 70,000 people have been killed in Gaza.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

I am deeply fascinated by the modern right's insistence that "the elite" is a category that does not actually include the ultra wealthy who dominate society and dictate many of its laws, and is instead made up of socialist teachers, anti-genocide protestors, and "woke" baristas.

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“What you talking about Willis?” was right there.

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Chlöe Swarbrick challenges Nicola Willis to debate as Greens unveil fisc... https://t.co/HzMUTIv5Br via @YouTube

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Sorry, Hastings

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Nice day out in Napier

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Of course not

[Sean Plunket @SeanPlunket]

Should gang members be banned from voting?

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Had forgotten that Paul Goldsmith is also defence minister

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why we need the "what is a woman" bill

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More of a Garry Shandling

[The Real Rory @mangereman]

😂 more Jewish jokes from Phil

Sheesh….he’s not exactly Larry David

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@Mountain_Tui Does the second sentence seem to be mocking the first?

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Seymour: "Possibility that the Labour Party is being funded by p money"

Yes, this election is going normally.

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The Kosher Club are unavailable

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Boy George struggles to find musicians willing to join him for Israel shows https://t.co/F2Fpclbf7i

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Two more weeks of everyone trying to be tougher than everyone else

[ACT New Zealand @actparty]

Last night, tackling the Greens and Gangs.

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@wekatweets The first of his Thor movies was okay, the second was a mess, from memory

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The Spinoff savages Taika https://t.co/dTlQQya3OJ

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amazingly unsurprising news

[New York Post @nypost]

Meghan Markle’s dad, Thomas, under investigation for ‘hundreds, if not thousands’ of child porn images: report https://t.co/auOxWiAxAv

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@slambert360 @LuchaLounge Ended up in Scotland

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@aucklandaussie @LuchaLounge She wrote a terrific book a few years ago called "Border: Journeys to the Edge of Empire", a travel book in Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria

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@aucklandaussie @LuchaLounge Last I heard she was living in Scotland

[Vincent Jones @JonesVincentt]

Always good weather in that wonderful town at this time of the year (Hastings this photo is from, not Napier)

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Going gangbusters, even https://t.co/NzD7TSetZR