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This T-Shirt was a Christmas present from my wife, who understands me. It relates to this earlier post . If the image isn’t clear, the pri...

Last night National selected its candidate for Botany to replace the disgraced Pansy Wong. It’s a solid-blue seat so the winner is assured o...

But to more important things. For example: How to dress like Samuel Beckett . If I could be in Auckland on 30 January, I would be at the B...

A headline in today’s Waikato Times announces that “Beauty sleep is no myth”. Do tell: The key to looking attractive and healthy is as simp...

A friend from Westland writes: We have had really nice balmy clear days here now that I’m back at work. But boy, we had some crazy rain over...

In 1974 Split Enz recorded the music for a 60-second TV ad for Suzuki motorbikes: “Get it together and let Suzuki blow your mind.” Not embed...

In   the 29 January issue of the Listener , Bill Ralston writes in his excellent “Life” column about his rubbish disposal problems. For UK r...

From Stuff today: Sports broadcaster Martin Devlin has outed himself as the “celebrity” in the Auckland disorderly-behaviour name suppress...

On the front page as a teaser for this story: Italy’s Berlusconi digs in heels I’d like to see that. Sounds tricky. Personally, I dig in R...

This wonderful map in last week’s Economist shows how all the US states rank internationally as economies, on 2009 or later figures, as m...