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The June issue of The Word has an interview with the much cleverer than his carefully maintained image would have you believe Iggy Pop . As...

From my all-time favourite comedy blog, Private Secret Diary : I do not know at what age children’s brains fully develop and they start real...

Karl du Fresne on the Rankin frenzy: We shouldn't forget Winston Peters either, though Lord knows I want to.

Beat this , Governor-General Anand Satyanand : In a display that a European Union spokesman called “too bizarre to acknowledge”, Governor Ge...

My sister-in-law Laughy Kate on her brother: Bit like the time he chased through my bedroom with the freshly shot dead rabbit. There is muc...

In today’s Waikato Times , Nikki Preston reports that the new US export subsidies on dairy exports could cost the district’s dairy farmers ...

Born 25 May 1926, died 28 September 1991. This is his second great quartet – with Wayne Shorter, sax; Herbie Hancock, piano; Ron Carter, bas...

Today’s lesson: dangling participles. A participle should describe the grammatical subject of the main clause. When it doesn’t you get a da...

Libby Purves in the Times : The best form of food safety is the ability to look the butcher in the eye. Monitor: The Week

Born 22 May 813, died 13 February 1883. This is Waltraud Meier singing Isolde’s Liebestod from Wagner ’s opera Tristan and Isolde , in a 19...