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Dr Rebecca Howard
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Chapter ten available! If you have enjoyed reading and want to find out what’s next for Project Tui then make sure and share with people who might be interested in coming along for the ride. A few more subscribers are needed to get Part Two ready for print.

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Photo of the inside of parliament with a grey block behind white text that says "END OF PART ONE. READ CHAPTER TEN NOW. LINK IN BIO"
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Read more from Chapter Nine of the memoirs about how the election campaign is coming together

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Photo of the Beehive tiles with press surrounding a lectern behind a grey box with white text that says “Don’t make me remind you, in front of Alix, about the candidate last term who was seeking refugee status for his white south African uncle. That carried the headlines for at least four days. Or the one who had three drink driving penalties even though he was still on his restricted licence. Absolute miracle that one didn’t make it into the press.”
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Chapter eight is getting nasty

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Photo of a dog behind burnt orange box with white words that say "Nobby looks like a dog who’s having his tummy rubbed while being promised he can lick the dog next door’s balls. The PM does a not particularly subtle look at her watch. Okay okay, time to get rolling."
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Chapter seven of the memoirs dives deeper and deeper into the Beehive

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Photo of parliament bar with white text on light blue background that says “Heels are towering. Shoulders squared. Weaving deftly between the grey haired from Napier. Swatting away some rumbunctious children. WHERE are their parents? I would ban the under 18s from precinct. None of these family rooms and breastfeeding spaces. Turn them back into late night drinking places."
September 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Roll up and read chapter six of the memoirs

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Photo of a bouquet of flowers with white text on a hot pink background which says “Waiting for us at the office is a bouquet of flowers and a hamper. Congratulations from the PM says the card. But the hamper has a cheap bottle of Prosecco and a bag of Whittaker's chocolates.”
September 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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If you know your Wellington you know your Wellington. Read Chapter Five of the Beehive Bit** memoirs today:

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Black and white poster for Atomic nightclub overlaid with white text on a yellow background that says "I call Alix. Meet me in Atomic tomorrow night. - Where? San Fran. - The bar on Cuba St or are we going overseas? The bar. There ain't nobody in the US who gives a toss about this parochial cuckfest."
September 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The heat is on and Chapter Four is here

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Photo of ballot box with white text on green background that says "This is the problem with campaign time. All the political hacksters without a strategic bone in their body smell the pheromones dancing off the elevated testosterone when you put into play a competition in which there is only one winner and incredible humiliation for the losers"
September 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Chapter Three is ready to read

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Photo of the Wellington Coast with white text on a burnt orange background that says "He requested we do the black hatting at his second Wellington home, the one on the coast, thinking the views out to the ocean and his wife pulling out the best china for afternoon tea would make it a safe space. Alix had her boots up on one of the fluffy pouffes. What’s the point of those things anyway?"
September 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Have you read chapter two of the Beehive Bit** memoirs yet?

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Picture of note paper with the following text "Having the President try to teach me how to suck eggs is so incredibly tedious. Go back to your high teas with the ladies of Karori. He doesn’t know I’m in it to win it because without this by-election there is no Project Tui. And I am very very excited about Project Tui."
August 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Chapter Two has landed

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White text on a blue background in front of a photograph of Wellington's Cenotaph which says "Screech alongside the Cenotaph. He's wanting the go ahead to ride up onto the kerb but we are not that kind of energy. Not today kiddo. Drop me off discreetly and let me buzz into the Beehive."
August 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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more from chapter one. read it all here

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white text on a red background in front of a photograph of Wellington's Beehive "Oh, it's the PM. Of course, she can't ring me from her phone because the call would need to be recorded in her diary. So now every time she wants to get in touch she has to persuade the Press Sec to stop doom scrolling the news outlets and hand her phone over. Wouldn't be having this problem if you'd just given me an office in the Beehive"
August 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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First chapter from my memoirs now online

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Text on a notepad that says "The PM’s back in charge. Eyeballing the ministers who look like they might dare to protest, scorning the backbenchers who she knows are trying to tap messages into their phones without her seeing. All sugar and spice, she confirms I'm also helping with the upcoming by-election."
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM