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On Boxing Day Laughy Kate asked for directions back to where she was staying with the other in-laws. I said, “Turn right from here past the...

In the true spirit of Christmas, the Times asked a bunch of arts-connected people to talk about the classics they can’t stand . Yes, it’s l...

Born on 23 December 1949, Belew is famous for the extraordinary range of animal noises he can produce on his guitar – in this Japanese TV a...

Home Paddock reminds us that twins Maurice and Robin Gibb were born on 22 December 1949, three years after their brother Barry. Together th...

The Los Angeles Times reports : The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, with its phosphate mines nearly depleted and without any other sig...

My wife works in a science organisation and is the only member of the senior management team without a PhD. She is brainy, but the others ar...

I was up at 5.30am yesterday to fly to Wellington for a four-hour meeting. Meeting over, three of us arrived about 3pm at the aitport for th...

David Williams reports for Stuff : New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has been embarrassingly dumped from a climate change debate by the BB...

This blog has been going for a year now. The idea was to post material from Quote Unquote the magazine, but I don’t have the digital files ...

He isn’t, not really – he’s a very bright guy. But like all columnists he sometimes has to wing it when faced with a deadline. Why else, for...