Greenland gets Warmer - But Not Greener
It seems to be a modern-day pilgrimage for those who fear global warming's impact: go to Greenland and witness the melting glaciers before they disappear.If you're lucky, you can hover above the...
View ArticleRemember Hans Kupka: Waikato's new nazi controversy
How is it that Waikato University, that famous bastion of political correctness, finds itself repeatedly embroiled in controversies involving members of the unpalatable far right?The simple and obvious...
View ArticleHow not to sell your nation to tourists
So, have American tourists started calling up, expressing interest in the Cinnabon at Auckland Airport yet?read more
View ArticleDispatch from Copenhagen
I received an odd phone-call this week. Out of the blue, the alarmingly perky morning hosts of an Auckland radio station I've never listened to rang to say that they'd heard I lived in Copenhagen. They...
View ArticleThe other news from Europe
Kept at home by an annoying flu, I spent much of this week following the live coverage of the British election and its fall-out.read more
View ArticleThe Happiest Writer on Pundit
I left my job at TVNZ eighteen months ago to move to Denmark. It was not such a culture shock: just like New Zealand’s state broadcaster these days, Denmark is mainly occupied by beautiful blondes.read...
View ArticleIs Rodney Hide a Bully?
For all of his years spent perfecting the art of attack, Rodney Hide has clearly learned little about defending himself in a media firestorm.read more
View ArticleFive Years After Society's Destruction
Gay New Zealanders have now had the right to earn state recognition of our rainbow-coloured relationships for a little more than five years. In that time, a lot of the predictions made before civil...
View ArticleSeeing the Forest for the Trees
Part of living away from New Zealand is accepting that things change back home. Last week, for example, I learned that my favourite coffee shop, 32 The Terrace, has changed hands. I can no longer look...
View ArticleNorway's terror - Lessons learned?
Since the horrific attacks by Anders Breivik, rather than calls for vengeance, European newspapers have been full of reflection about the tenor of their national debates on multiculturalism and...
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