Opinion

Associate Education Minister David Seymour’s attempts to deflect the Auditor-general’s criticism of the beleaguered healthy school lunch programme have not been convincing.

Former French premier Georges Clemenceau said: “The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” about a century ago, and it’s still true.

I wrote a poem. I know, I know, but I was in my teens and if you don’t write poetry in your teens, when do you?

The clean-up from the weekend’s torrential rain had barely started before the recriminations began.

For some the prospect is tempting, for others it will be terrifying, but it is quite possible that New Zealand First could have two, or more, MPs in the South after the November 7 election.

Summer was the season of book sales in Central Otago when thousands of books changed hands at ridiculously low prices and good causes benefited as a result.