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Christina Lamb is Washington correspondent of the Sunday Times and won this year’s Prix Bayeux Calvados for war reporting for her coverage...

Home Paddock alerted us to the fuss in Australia about creole creams, a trans-Tasman sequel to our own fuss about marshmallow Eskimos . But...

The question is posed in this week’s Spectator Diary by Neil Tennant, the articulate Pet Shop Boy, following their tour of the Americas – ...

Arab News reports : A new TV show that discusses issues concerning teenage girls and female university students was recently broadcast with ...

Well, it would be if Ike was still with us but he left for the Great Gig in the Sky nearly two years ago, on 12 December 2007. Even if we al...

Robert McCrum writes in the Observer that the Chambers Dictionary may be no more. Its owner, Hachette UK, a subsidiary of the French comp...

The Waikato Times reports on its front page today: Matamata farmer Nigel Buckley had to rub the sleep from his eyes to make sure he wasn’t...

Yes, I know. It is not a phrase I thought I would ever use. The Duke of Edinburgh does seem to be, frankly, a total shit. And yet, and yet. ...

How the Herald ’s next interview with John Key will read .

Clearly the e-book is the future of publishing and the Kindle has always sounded better than the competition. I could see it as a working t...