Quote Unquote

The Economist decided to put a figure-skating Vladimir Putin on the cover of its new issue: “What better way to depict the Russian pr...

Danyl McLauchlan in the comments on his post about Cunliffe’s recent snafu : And maybe Labour should stop liquidating senior staff whenev...

Tim Newman is in France: The French discuss food like Brits discuss house prices, and I know whose dinner table I’d rather sit around.

It doesn’t happen often but if  ever I feel a bit sad and in need of some positive reinforcement I just look at the unpublished spam commen...

On Twitter today who cares about National’s education policy, what matters is that the excellent Lawrence Arabia – I really am a fan – is ...

A technology writer in the New Zealand Herald on Kim Dotcom’s latest PR stunt : There’s a lot at stake, ignoring these issues at a polit...

Unethical soda . New York magazine reports that this is a genuine problem, known to caring people as “blood bubbles”. Quote unquote: Nov...

My favourite Slovenian,  Bernarda Fink was born in Argentina but her parents were Slovenian and according to the internet her husband is...

Someone at the Waikato Times reads this blog, or perhaps has a copy of Lunch and Journalism: the Wintec Press Club which contains int...

Yes, yes, I will soon get back to posting material from Quote Unquote the magazine, but meanwhile: On our holiday – we went up north f...