HeyJaredWonder Out Loud
This is where I wonder out loud about politics, leadership, and society. Sometimes messy, often questioning, always curious.
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Imagine if ... (opens the original)
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On Monday, David Seymour set out ACT’s supermarket policy with a pledge. Stop scapegoating. Stop the pile-on. Remove the barriers and roll out the welcome mat.Reading that … I wondered … what would happen if we keep the same words, the same tone, the same argument, and swapped supermarkets for public education.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPjW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
The curious case of the National Party's latest ban pledge (opens the original)
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Last weekend, National announced they will be banning screens in early childhood centres. This follows a successful phone ban in schools, and an announcement about banning under-sixteens from social media. If I was a bit more cynical I’d think there are votes in bans.But honestly, looking past the cynicism, this banning of ECE screens is baffling. Not because there’s no basis for caution around screens and young children - there is. The Paediatric Society’s own endorsed guidelines recommend mini
ACT’s Business policy: Not what it says on the tin (opens the original)
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“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”― Mahatma GandhiWhen ACT’s policy landed this week, my first response was exasperation. Exasperated by ACT’s relentless cruelty - taking from those who can least afford it: young workers, minimum-wage workers, the ones already deciding between rent and everything else - and handing the saving to their employer. I wondered what kind of Scrooge-like mind dreams up a policy like that.<div class="captioned-image-containe
The little riz problem of the two Chrises (opens the original)
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Both major parties are sitting at around 30%, give or take - one up this week, the other up the next. One poll is never the whole story, but it’s hard to deny the pattern settling in around these numbers. It’s an unusual pattern: it used to be common for one of the two major parties to sit around 30-ish in a given election - for both of them to be there at once is new. And the pundits have found a diagnosis for what they see as the problem: neither Chris has the riz.<a class="image-link image2 i
Campaigning like it's 2023 (opens the original)
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Election campaigns are just storytelling with guaranteed book deals. A party gets a few months to persuade a country their story is a story worth buying. When writing a novel the first decision is genre. In 2020, Labour gave us an uplift novel: the Team of Five Million. Ordinary people pulling together, looking after one another, getting through something hard side by side. Quiet everyday heroism. Everyone doing their bit. Who doesn’t like an uplift novel?Uplift stories are especially handy for
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