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She is still in Uzbekistan and will be for another two weeks. She has been to Tashkent and Samarkand , tonight will be in Bukhara and th...

Lloyd Evans in the Spectator , reviewing the play Deathtrap by Ira Levin at the Noel Coward Theatre: I sat there watching them smugly, feel...

One doesn’t want to receive a txt beginning, “Have just arrived in Majorca.” The flight was supposed to be direct from Kuala Lumpur to Tash...

From the Waikato Times (not online but the Herald story is ): REALTOR TICKED OFF OVER AD A Coromandel real estate agent has been found gu...

Ally has a confession to make. Yes, another one. Eric Crampton criticises recent media coverage of Bjorn Lomborg and extols the benefits ...

To be precise, the past subjunctive . Here is John Prine ’s song “If She Were You” from his 1986 album German Afternoons : Well, every time...

To Auckland yesterday for very convivial drinks with two bloggers – Fundy Post and Laughy Kate – and two former NZBC bloggers. Then this mo...

Dim-Post has reservations – OK, is appalled by – the sweeping powers granted to Gerry Brownlee under the Canterbury Earthquake Response and ...

It’s local-body election time. Curb your enthusiasm. Dim-Post reports of the Wellington local body candidates that current mayor Kerry Pre...

Philip Matthews reports in The Press (presumably – I can’t find it online but it was in tonight’s Waikato Times ) on how social-media repor...