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For younger readers baffled by their elders’ occasional references to Dancing Cossacks, this was a three-minute “party political broadcast”...

Adam Rutherford , a geneticist who tweets at @AdamRutherford, has posted on Amazon a brief review of AN Wilson’s new Charles Darwin: Victo...

Alex von Tunzelmann tweets:  In Britain, humour is used to cut off conversations before they can get emotional, boring or technical. ...

So here are the Killers at the Isle of Wight festival in 2013 performing “When I’m 64”.  Yes, that is how old I am. Even though I did m...

The University of Waikato invites applications for Writer in Residence for 2018. The salary is $52,000. Yes, $52,000. The position is op...

Michael Baume in the Spectator on cow dialects : Keeping inequality in proper perspective, the London Evening Standard last week ran a f...

From the edition of Thursday 17 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times . ...

Well, more a poem for David Mueller, the creep recently convicted of sexual assault on singer Taylor Swift . It is by Denis Glover and it ...

From the edition of Friday 11 August. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times . ...

In the July Literary Review Lucy Lethbridge reviews seven books about Jane Austen . One, already savaged by Private Eye for its allegedly...