Ana Samways

Auckland

Columnist at New Zealand Herald

Producer at Three

Writer at Sideswiped

Just a girl in a skirt on a power trip.

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Sideswiped

1 week ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

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Sideswipe: Who wants to be a Trillionaire?

1 month ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

Cost Of Living Crisis Dinner: Treat the whanau to empty calories, delicious emulsifiers and nitrites. Liar, liar coalition on fire: @MusicalChairs14 explains why this ACT ad is bullshit… “The average weighted interest rate on NZ mortgages in October 2023 was 5.61%. It is now around 6.1%. Kiwis with mortgages are currently paying over $436m per week in interest. It was $381m in October 2023.”I don’t know about your hood, but For Sale signs are popping up all around ours.
Sideswiped

1 month ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

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Sideswiped: Take a long hot bath

1 month ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

Laconic and understated, this short spot is the West Coast’s "Find Your Cool" Campaign — part of the much maligned "Everyone Must Go" initiative, aiming to attract Australian visitors to the West Coast of New Zealand. Cue massive eyeroll. The filter, which was made available via CapCut allowed users to toggle between their current appearance and a digitally inflated version of themselves, with many pairing the effect with the song Anxiety by Doechii.
Sideswiped

1 month ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

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Sideswipe: Still Waiting

1 month ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

No lived experience of poverty? No worries. Thrice married, 77 year-old former ACT leader Richard Prebble reckons our kids don’t need free food because more of them are fat than hungry. “…one in 10 children” is obese,” he offers, adding…”Only the loony left could think free food is the answer to obesity.”This is quickly followed up with the some-of-my-best-friends-are-poor qualifier. "I live in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in New Zealand.
Sideswiped

1 month ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

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Sideswipe: Wild Cabbage

1 month ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

I mostly like Ryan Bridge’s earthy, turn of phrase. Even if his politics aren’t my jam. But as his fanboying for Luxon continues this week, he goes out on a lonely limb and declares Luxon is on a roll, not going to be rolled. Playing to his crowd he has a sexist snipe at a private citizen who wrote a kids book, in a confused, paternal analogy.
Sideswiped

2 months ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

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Sideswiped: Easily Irritable?

2 months ago | sideswipedthesequel.substack.com | Ana Samways

Current irritations include:Billionaires buying into legacy media. People who cross roads diagonally. Shoelaces tied really tightly, so tight that they leave unreasonably long loops. Having the school lunch argument over and over again.