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It’s a funny thing but every three years in early spring (for overseas readers: election time) my thoughts turn to this Little Feat song an...

While the rest of the country, at least that part of it that pays attention to politics, has today been tweeting   about Judith Collin’s re...

The 74th in this occasional series of reprints from  Quote Unquote  the magazine is by Mark Broatch is his Pop Vox column from the Marc...

It came from Vincent O’Sullivan, of course – winner of the poetry award last night for Us, then. VUP’s Twitter feed reports that Ki...

’ The Mancunian-Canadian Carole Pope – “an icon of transgressive music” who is a “singer songwriter, agent provocateur pushing the bound...

It’s clear that CK was in love with Owen, but — though he was rumoured at the time to have seduced him — the balance of probability is that...

In Lee Child’s new novel Personal ,  due in the shops here on Monday 1 September, there is a passage in Chapter 14 when Jack Reacher go...

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Dave Eggers (Hamish Hamilton, ₤14.99) It takes the recent death o...

The Wintec Press Club meets for lunch three times a year in Hamilton: guests are the students of the Wintec journalism course, important me...

This Internet Party vid with young people chanting “Fuck John Key”. Yes, terrible. Young people today, etc. In 1969 Keith Holyoake...