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Friday, March 9, 2018

Report on experience: VUP edition

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To the capital for the launch last night at the Wellington Festival of three VUP books: All This by Chance , a novel by Vincent O’Sullivan...
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Friday, March 2, 2018

Gramophone letter of the month #1

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From the February 2018 issue. Speedy Debussy? I was so disappointed to read Harriet Smith’s review of Stephen Hough’s wonderful new Debu...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Waikato Times letter of the week #84

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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 ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Wintec Press Club: Sean Plunket edition

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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...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Spectator sentence of the year

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From Dot Wordsworth’s language column about Bishop Heber’s hymn “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains”: He was a clever man and agreeable, lea...
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Monday, November 6, 2017

Waikato Times letter of the week #83

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From the edition of Saturday 4 November. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ....
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Waikato Times letter of the week #82

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From the edition of Wednesday 18 October. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the  Waikato Times ...
Saturday, October 7, 2017

Economist letter of the week

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From the 30 September edition : Breezy rhetoric You stated that Britain remains the world leader in offshore wind power (“Hull of a win...
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Sunday, September 17, 2017

Election 2017: Dancing Cossacks edition

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For younger readers baffled by their elders’ occasional references to Dancing Cossacks, this was a three-minute “party political broadcast”...
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Friday, September 8, 2017

Book review of the month

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