This newsletter has a new home.
If you're reading this in your email, nothing has changed: it's arrived the way it always has, and it will keep doing that. If you've clicked through, or wandered in — welcome. Do please take a look around!
The whole More Than A Feilding archive has made the trip here. Your subscription came too, without you having to do anything. So the move itself asks nothing of you. But the new place holds considerably more than the old one could, so please come with me now on a short tour.
A daily newsletter can keep meeting some familiar questions. What does this Treaty have to do with me? What's the actual figure for government debt, as opposed to the one being shouted? So: the Glossary — the definitions I kept re-making, made once, and made citable.
The Numbers. Because the argument is only as good as the figure, the figures now live where you — and I — can check them. When someone tells you what the country can't afford, this is where you find out what it actually spends.
Explore, and Remembered. The writing that was never really "posts" — the travelling, the remembering. The satire. The Scriptures, Kia Kaha Primary, the School Journal.
Propositions. What all the commentary adds up to when you stack it: the things I'd actually do.
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 here on the site, because a quiz that keeps score needs somewhere to keep it. And it does keep score: there's This Week's Know-All for the most right since Monday, The Streak for turning up daily, Dead Eye for accuracy. Everyone can play; paid subscribers get to be ranked and compete.
Here's today's first question, to start you off:
1. What affectionate epithet was bestowed upon John Campbell by the Prime Minister during the Corngate scandal?
a. My Little Cabbage
b. My Little Show Pony
c. Little Creep
d. Huckery Moll
That's the tour. What this place is trying to be, I suppose, is a working writer's house with the workshop doors open — the daily letter out front, and behind it the reference shelves, the ledgers, the games room. You're most welcome here.
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.
