Opinion

Shots Fired

Shots Fired

Adrienne Truscott (2013 Edin­burgh Fringe Pan­el prizewin­ner) “I would’ve said [Tony] Abbott, because his tone-deaf­­ness makes it so easy, and after the George Bush years an Amer­ic­an could basic­ally recycle […]

Chuckles the Finance Minister

Chuckles the Finance Minister

Bill Eng­lish Des­pite polit­ics closely resem­bling an epis­ode of The Walk­ing Dead, watch­ing Bill Eng­lish unleash his anti-cha­risma on New Zea­l­and is still com­puls­ive view­ing for his stat­ist­ics, policies and, […]

More hurrahs to come?

More hurrahs to come?

Rival­ries, on the whole, are a bit of fun. Sib­ling rival­ries, trans-Tas­­man rival­ries, glee­fully venom­ous but prob­ably made-up rival­ries on real­ity shows. It’s all just a harm­less, some­what pass­ive-aggress­ive gag. How­ever, there’s […]

Cricket World Cup special

Cricket World Cup special

Crick­et and polit­ics have many things in com­mon — the highest form of each is both exhil­ar­at­ing to fans and excru­ci­at­ing to every­one else, and New Zea­l­and bats high­er than […]

Fun from the fringes

Fun from the fringes

Dav­id Seymour’s ‘See-Mo’ Mous­tache For Movem­ber, Sey­mour grew what could only be described as ‘The Epsom Ban­dito’. Like a slightly uncool Mag­num PI, it was per­fect for a man looking […]

WGT vs. AKL

WGT vs. AKL

Eight years ago I moved to Wel­ling­ton. I’ve wanted to go home ever since. I’ve tried to find a way every year. But not this year. This year I’m set­tling in. […]

Selling the silver

Selling the silver

I slam the laptop shut, lock my fin­gers behind my head and lean back in a self-con­­­grat­u­lat­ory stretch. I’ve just flogged off a room­ful of fur­niture. After all the advertising […]

The Other Election

The Other Election

I strongly sug­gest you look up Fiji and its coups in order to under­stand fully the import­ance of this elec­tion. My fam­ily has lived in Fiji since 1996. Dur­ing the […]

Election 2014

Election 2014

Nation­al: 48% Sorry #teamkey, they won’t get 50 per­cent. But only just. This is National’s elec­tion to lose, and John Key doesn’t only hold all the cards — he’s dealing… […]

The Big Budget Bash

The Big Budget Bash

In the red corner comes the chal­lenger: the Eco­nom­ic Policy Evis­cer­at­ors, the Gurus of Growth, the Kiwi Namers — theeee… LABOUR PARTY!! And in the blue corner, the defend­ing champion: […]