Letters to the Editor: fairness, vulgarity and monkeys
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including abolishing the "Fairness Doctrine", how standards have dropped, and "cheese-eating surrender monkeys".
Opinion
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Tread softly with South Dunedin
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Tread softly with South Dunedin
Home is where the heart is, we’re told.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
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Frantic scrutiny of MBIE
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Frantic scrutiny of MBIE
Parliament has spend this week enjoying/enduring (delete as you see fit) scrutiny week, its twice yearly in-depth examination of government expenditure by select committees.
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The secret diary of ... Matthew Hooton
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The secret diary of ... Matthew Hooton
The first week in the job of the best qualified person to destroy a Wellington newspaper.
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Hockey an exhibition of brilliancy
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Hockey an exhibition of brilliancy
Never before in the history of hockey in New Zealand has such public interest been aroused in the game as has centred during the past month in the visit of the Indian Army...
In living memory
In living memory
Practising before competing in the Dunedin district 1986 Westpac School Music Competition, are Logan Park jazz band members Juliet Pope (trumpet), Sophie Bond ...
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How to set MP perks while rest struggle
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How to set MP perks while rest struggle
Civis joins the outrage about MPs’ and ex-MPs’ entitlements.
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The virtue of working together
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The virtue of working together
For those who cynically suggest that our politicians cannot work together on anything, Parliament this week offered evidence to the contrary in the form of the government’s response to the National...
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
A catastrophic future for humanity is not inevitable as we have agency
A catastrophic future for humanity is not inevitable as we have agency
In less than four years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, AI technology has shifted from theoretical and technical conversations among computer scientists in the digital tech industry and universities...
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Picking the radical as the Left-Right culture war rages on
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Picking the radical as the Left-Right culture war rages on
The contemporary Left dismisses the very idea of ‘‘culture war’’ with a curled lip and rolling eyes.
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No-one can answer the Irish Question
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No-one can answer the Irish Question
Last week’s violence in Northern Ireland, not really a ‘‘protest’’ but an organised pogrom, is being seized on by the British and international hard right as further evidence that ‘‘out-of-control...
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Early settler centenarian dies
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Early settler centenarian dies
Mrs Ann Watson, who reached her hundredth birthday in March last, died yesterday afternoon at the Auckland Infirmary, where she was admitted on the 2nd of this month.
Ian Taylor: Jones' mining sums don't add up
Ian Taylor: Jones' mining sums don't add up
If mining is the key to funding public infrastructure then why did Otago have to campaign for a new hospital when the province is home to New Zealand’s largest gold mine?
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Immigration IT debacle
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Immigration IT debacle
The latest scandal involving a multimillion-dollar public spend on dud information technology involves questions which extend well beyond those immediately involved.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
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Finally now starting to see myself again
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Finally now starting to see myself again
Our very first semester at Otago is officially done and this new routine no longer feels unfamiliar, but rather something akin to comfortability.
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The fake news about crossword clues
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The fake news about crossword clues
Fake. 7 letters. P-N-E-S.
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Ceremony, but shortage of pomp
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Ceremony, but shortage of pomp
Wellington, June 17: The ceremonies connected with the opening of Parliament were continued to-day, shorn of some of their customary splendour by the fact that his ...