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From the edition of Wednesday February 21. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ...

The Wintec Press Club luncheon is staged by the Wintec School of Media Arts three times a year for the benefit of their journalism students...

From Dot Wordsworth’s language column about Bishop Heber’s hymn “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains”: He was a clever man and agreeable, lea...

From the edition of Saturday 4 November. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ....

From the edition of Wednesday 18 October. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ...

From the 30 September edition : Breezy rhetoric You stated that Britain remains the world leader in offshore wind power (“Hull of a win...

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...