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Hard News: Political Idol, or whatever you want to call it 27 Aug 2013 | 03:20 am
When John Key sneered yesterday that the Labour leadership contest would be "three weeks of reality TV" and "Political Idol, or whatever you want to call it," he clearly meant that in a bad way. The o...
Southerly: Continuing After A Short Interruption 26 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
At 12.51 pm on 22 February 2011, I had just finished writing a piece about the arrival of my daughter, Polly (who had been born three weeks previously). A moment later, my computer exploded all over t...
Field Theory: Boos 'n' All 23 Aug 2013 | 08:16 am
I’m not sure if Quade Cooper was expecting boos, when he took the field last week. I mean, it was a home game. Originally the boos were a form of protest after Cooper’s “brilliant” idea to niggle (and...
Hard News: Friday Music: Just Kids 23 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
It was always going to be a key principle of Audioculture, the "noisy library of New Zealand music", that the site would present not just the music, but all the things that attached to it and connecte...
OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk 22 Aug 2013 | 10:02 am
Welcome to your sudden but inevitable future of ubiquitous surveillance. To an extent, I appreciate the arguments made by supporters of the GCSB Bill - it's not really a huge encroachment of mass surv...
Hard News: So long, and thanks for all the fish ... 22 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
Firstly, apologies for that headline. I just couldn't go past it after this. David Shearer has stepped down as leader of the Labour Party and his replacement will be known after a three to four week e...
Speaker: Naked Inside the Off-Ramp 22 Aug 2013 | 02:23 am
Whenever the term ‘inside-the-beltway’ is used I usually wince. We Wellingtonians go about our business inside a succession of off-ramps, not inside a beltway. Off-ramp doesn’t sound as fashionable I ...
Capture: Spring Breaks 21 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
By popular demand, and apparently a little late, except also early... whatever, our annual spring thread is here! I've had a funny old winter, and for the most part will be glad to see the back of it....
Hard News: Market Wisdom 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
My first and only visit to Beijing, as the guest of a telephone company, was short and closely chaperoned. China was open, but not yet giddily so, in the late 90s -- and as journalists, we were inevit...
Field Theory: The final four 20 Aug 2013 | 06:09 am
The results are in and I’m… well I’m not surprised, a little disheartened maybe. In Keith Ng-esque graphical form here are the numbers: As you can see, in the Super Rugby results the numbers were clo...
