Hello! you’re receiving this email because you’re subscribed to More Than A Feilding, which was David Slack’s newsletter at Substack.
This is to let you know the newsletter has a new home at https://www.davidslack.net/
The whole More Than A Feilding archive has made the trip over, and your free subscription came too.
The new place holds considerably more than the old one could, so please come with me now on a short tour.
First there’s the Glossary of Aotearoa which is an index and an archive of all the most recurring topics and questions such as What does this Treaty have to do with me? and What's the actual figure for government debt, as opposed to the one being shouted? You can find it all in the Glossary
In The Numbers, the figures live where we can check them. When someone tells you what the country can't afford, this is where you find out what it actually spends.
For readers who enjoy the family and personal stuff more than the daily news, there’s Explore, and Remembered: people, places, and moments that have meant something.
There’s also Scriptures, Kia Kaha Primary, and the School Journal in Satire.
In Propositions I set out what all the commentary adds up to: the things I'd actually do, a manifesto of sorts.
And then there's the quiz. Ten questions a day, drawn from the same reading the newsletter is — the politics, the history, the absurdities. Each morning's email brings you the first question. The other nine, and the scoring, and the leaderboard, live on the site, because a quiz that keeps score needs somewhere to keep it.
Everyone can play; paid subscribers get to be ranked and compete.
Here's today's first question, to start you off:
Which phrase is often associated with Norman Kirk's political vision?
a. New Zealand the way you want it
b. Up where we belong
c. Briscoes you’ll never buy better
d. There are four things that matter to people
Take the rest of the quiz here
It’s all free to read and you’re most welcome to take a look. https://www.davidslack.net/
PS: You’ll notice the masthead's changed too. More Than A Feilding has been retired. It was a joke that required footnotes, and people called it David Slack's Newsletter anyway, so now it officially is.
