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It's nice to see Bill Ralston back in the workforce, although I wonder when his respective editors at The Listener and the Herald on Sunday realised he'd be starting new columns for each of them on ...
All right, this is getting ridiculous. It's been a beautiful day in Auckland. I rode from the Chev to La Cigale in Parnell, then back via Quay Street, and out along Queen's Wharf, to inspect the damn ...
It's almost exactly three months since the New Zealand Herald's 'Diary' columnist Rachel Glucina announced in a tweet that she had been "headhunted" by Mediaworks "for a joint venture partnership to ...
"In just seven years' time, they'll have enough money to buy every share in every public company in New Zealand. Soon, they could buy all the farms. Indeed, one day the government could wind up owning ...
When friends of mine were first messing around with bulletin boards back in the early nineties, they used to say that when commenting dropped off, all you needed to do was Drop the A-bomb. Mention ...
We have quite a show for you on Media7 this week. We're looking at climate change and the media, and I'll be speaking to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister's chief science advisor, a few ...
So John Banks, helicoptered in to the Act Party, seems set to administer the electoral death blow to that party by virtue of apparent actions committed while he was still a member of the National ...
Heat: it's is like Seinfeld, without the interesting characters. It's the blog about nothing. Rob O'Neill, an expat kiwi journalist and sometimes writer, reports from Sydney, where he resides with the ...
Che is a thirty-something escapee of the bogan lifestyle. After a life of black jumpers and blacker jeans Che migrated to the big smoke of Wellington. Flipping a coin, Che chose the academic life, ...
I have never met Steve Crow. I have no particular wish to do so. He strikes me as an unpleasant, cynical man with whom I would have little in common. His claim in court yesterday that his Boobs on ...
Just to spoil your enjoyment of the congenial weather hereabouts, Joseph Romm has an excellent column on Salon this week in which he wishes people would stop talking about a "consensus" on global ...