‘All silent, all done’: The Block and the end of a New Zealand housing era
Duncan Greive reflects on the shambolic end to The Block 2017, and what the show has revealed to us about our housing market and crisis over that time.
Duncan Greive
Duncan Greive is founder and editor of The Spinoff.
Screaming into the void with Gareth Morgan and TOP
Duncan Greive spends an extraordinary two days with Gareth Morgan – and his comms sidekick Sean Plunket – as he tries to will TOP back into relevance amid the chaos of the 2017 election.
‘Words do mean things’: Highlights from Guyon Espiner’s brutal interview with Winston Peters
The best interview of the election happened today on Morning Report, when Guyon Espiner made Winston Peters look like his race was already run. Duncan Greive recounts the 10 greatest hits.
If the election is driving you to drink, there’s now a podcast for that
This week ‘The Beerhive’ launched, a podcast which sits between beer and politics. Host Shane Cowlishaw explains the pod to Duncan Greive.
‘We’re now slushing around in a tabloid shit pit’ – An interview with Guy Williams
Former radio host, current Jono and Ben man and Billy T winning comic Guy Williams has just released a half-hour stand-up special for free on the internet. He spoke with Duncan Greive about a variety of things.
Just when you thought we’d stopped with the China-bashing
Bryan Bruce’s documentary Who owns New Zealand now? – which screened on Three last night in primetime – is a deeply problematic sequel to Labour’s ‘Chinese-sounding names’ fiasco of 2015, writes Duncan Greive.
Labour is starting a new TV channel – so why won’t it sell TVNZ?
Labour’s non-commercial RNZ+ multi-media network is a brilliant idea – but it makes no sense to keep it and retain public ownership of TVNZ, argues Duncan Greive.
Amazon is coming for our wallets. How one little Mt Albert supermarket is fighting back
The car park was chockers, but Duncan Grieve battled the Christian hoards to check out New World's new answer to a New York Deli crossed with My Food Bag. But did it deliver the goods?
The money fight: Ardern lights up English in Christchurch
In the most obscure yet symbolically important debate of recent elections, Ardern attacked English with a pitiless fury. Duncan Greive recaps the massacre.
The very best of The Spinoff Great Debate
Last night The Spinoff hosted ‘The Great Debate’ on Facebook Live. We wanted the most entertaining politicians on one stage to cause chaos, and that’s exactly what we got. Duncan Greive recounts the highlights.
