Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes. It is borderline ridiculous. Mind you so are those manipulative memory loss ads. 010
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just went to the TVNZ 1news website and ALL the ads are about memory loss products. What does the TVNZ advertising database know about my health that I don't? 411
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What I can't tease out of this is whether businesses think it's going to get better because the coalition will win the election or because it will lose the election. 050
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Agree. It could not be more finely balanced between two sharply contrasting views of where we want to go. 100
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes. Although there's too much uncertainty here to be sure of anything. Based on the Reid poll that would give Labour+Green+TPM one seat more than the coalition. But we are talking about a difference which is under the margin of error and we've no idea how the missing votes would distribute. 000
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It partly depends on where the missing Opportunity votes go instead. if they split evenly, then yes, you'd be right. But if they all go to Labour or Green then that would take the opposition parties across the line. 110
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There seem to be plenty of data points In that graph... enough to show 5.5% is not an outlier. I'm always conscious when reading polls that a 3.5% margin of error means the margin for a party polling ~5% is ~1.5 percentage points. So in a single poll Opportunity is anywhere from 4% to 7%. 010
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I hear the numbers, but 80% seems heroic with undecideds consistently sitting at ~5% or higher and the difference between the Opportunity poll number and the 5% threshold only exceeding the margin of error in a single poll. Or have I missed something? 100
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Secretly the Kiwibank marketing execs will be rubbing their hands with glee. Every dollar spent on the ad campaign will have been multiplied many times by this attention and the brand is out there front and centre every single time with no actual harm done. 2224
Reposted by Bill BennettCartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 05/10/2026AI 'art'. Today's cartoon by Aadvik Singh. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #art #artists 06329
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026While I absolutely love the idea of trains between Wellington and Auckland, I'd love it even more if the rail journey time was more in line with car travel time between the two cities. 230
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I have no objection to people parking in the street directly outside my house. How could I? But there are clearly two spaces and almost every time I return home there is a giant truck-like SUV or similar that is parked across both spaces. Do people get a morality bypass when they buy one of these? 251478
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When we first visited New Zealand, 40 years ago, we took the daytime trip from Wellington to Auckland and even though we were held up for two hours because of a signal failure at Hamilton, it was a memorable experience. 070
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If the AI techbros are right that's not going to be a problem. 020
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It was great in the 1980s. I stayed there when it was part of a government owned hotel chain. Restaurant did a mean rack of lamb… ten years later and in private hands it was distinctly so-so. I don’t think any building upkeep had been attempted since It was sold. 020
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I did the same thing at Smales Farm earlier today. 110
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I will vote for the party that bans election billboards. 360
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Remind yourself that you will never be those people. That you will never need to stoop as low as those people. Demonstrating to them you are in great shape despite their best efforts can be more powerful than physical blows or a pointless, needlessly aggressive response. 010
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You can explain this to farmers until you are blue in the face and they won't listen. But they will have clean up their act once overseas buyers start cancelling contracts. 040
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Absolutely... although it's not much of an argument in favour of allowing the deal to proceed when the actual issues are all about the competitive effects. I'm slightly surprised the ComCom paid so much attention to the effects on the equipment suppliers. 000
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Even more shocking when you consider the US hosted the FIFA World Cup over the summer. 000
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Creatively used leftovers are so often the best meals. 010
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today's newsletter looks at how the Commerce Commission will decide if the proposed 2degrees-One NZ network sharing joint venture should go ahead. It's important in the light of what happened long term after two supermarket chains merged 25 years ago. billbennett.co.nz/comcom-to-te...billbennett.co.nzCommerce Commission examines 2degrees - One NZ network dealThe Commerce Commission will test the proposed network sharing joint venture between 2degrees and One NZ. Rocket Lab gets Iridium go ahead. Tuanz breaks even in time for 40 year anniversary. 121
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Isn't the angst on the left all about these people not actually being radical? Make your mind up. 110
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m not convinced this is a wise announcement at a time the best brains in New Zealand politics are thinking about how they can deal with rapacious supermarkets. At the very least it won’t help their PR whitewashing. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...rnz.co.nzWoolworths confirms plan to move 130 jobs to AustraliaWoolworths New Zealand is going ahead with plans to cut 130 jobs in New Zealand and move them to Australia. 070
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One thing to think about with polls and the forthcoming election: There is a strong positive correlation between the electorates where the Green Party vote is high and where the ACT Party vote is high. 010
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Are people who collect promotional stickers from New World Smeg heads? 230
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Love the grapefruit knife, but nothing, not anything, gets remotely close to the stove top espresso pot. 121
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I notice the Companies Office has my company address as North Shore City. Now that's a name I haven't seen in a long time. Does anyone else still use that? 310
Reposted by Bill BennettAlistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No she’s not. 21722120
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Have you ever seen the Brokenwood Mysteries? I'm surprised there's anyone left alive in that part of Auckland. 2270
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope you're right. I don't mind a bit, but it is starting to dominate. 110
Reposted by Bill BennettJosh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026I've finally seen the light. I urge everyone to visit taxpayersunion.org.nz and see the good work that they've been doing on behalf of the hard-working taxpayers of New Zealand 815855
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The UK finished paying off its World War II debts on December 29, 2006. 010
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My Dad had hair-raising stories about V1s and V2s which hit London when he was a schoolboy. Even when I was in my teens there were still many bomb sites in English cities... that would be the 1970s. 200
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes, by that stage the Luftwaffe was pretty much over. 010
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There is a bit of a "last touched by the Luftwaffe" feel. It only really needs a façade. It's 100% a guess... but there are parts of London that have scheduled for an update since forever. This looks like one. It's at least 40 years since I was at that station. But I recognised it immediately. 120
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I know of ugly tube stations in London, but that is bad. one thing I remember about that station is it is hard to find if you’re not a local. 110
Reposted by Bill BennettPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nothing says “AI bubble” like the industry’s biggest player opposing the caution that others agree on in the interests of, er, human survival. 314131
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yes. I don’t have the kind of money sitting around to buy a new car... Not even a decent second hand EV. 140
Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Whenever a politician uses the term "hardworking Kiwis" you know something dodgy is coming. On a similar note, "mum and dad investors" appears to be code for "rich people". 2253
