Elle Hunt is a London-based commissioning and communities editor at Guardian Cities
After spending a year padding around her London flat and communicating only through screens, Elle Hunt is more than ready for a good gossip.
'I was fuming when she said that. I can do whatever I want to do on stage, I can say whatever I want.'
'I was fuming when she said that. I can do whatever I want to do on stage, I can say whatever I want.'
People flooded pubs as England celebrated 'independence day', but all Elle Hunt wanted was the hairdresser.
The chief propagandist of rage against the privileged Westminster elite has proved himself the epitome of the privileged Westminster elite.
One of the many unspoken rules of British life is that when one is drinking at the pub with others, one buys rounds. For the naive New Zealander, it's stressful AF, says Elle Hunt.
Tests on citizenship are very revealing about our ideas of 'national identity', writes NZ-British human mashup Elle Hunt.
NZ has long been the world’s imagined lifeboat – and increasingly for something more than just escape
From Shepherds Bush to Acton, Wimbledon to Wandsworth, and now even Hackney, London is sprinkled with New Zealander strongholds
One of the many unspoken rules of British life is that when one is drinking at the pub with others, one buys rounds. For the naive New Zealander, it's stressful AF, says Elle Hunt.
Warm, dry homes are a standard, not a luxury – Kiwi renters should expect nothing less, writes Elle Hunt.
The metric system might seem obvious to us, but resisting it has started to become a point of extreme pride for Americans.
There are few things New Zealanders love more than walking around the city without shoes or socks on. And now, maybe, the Northern Hemisphere is ready to get onboard.
New Zealand's binge drinking culture is notoriously bad, but could change be on the horizon for this little country of boozers?
'This is a portrait of a kiwi film director Taika Waititi NOT Jose Mourinho YOU MUPPET!!!'
Meghan and Harry have welcomed a new human into the world. And the UK media could hardly be happier, reports Elle Hunt from London.
Elle Hunt composes a love letter to New Zealand's online auction site, with which foreign counterparts cannot compare
Living in a city polluted with dirty air is among many facts of life that Londoners pay for, not just with money but with our health as well.
It's all relative, sure, but New Zealand's media has clearly done a far better job at holding the line against Islamophobia than their UK and Australian counterparts, writes Elle Hunt from London.
Is it a bird, is it a plane? Online sleuth Elle Hunt fires up the search engines.
'Kissing', 'necking', 'snogging', 'making out' – there are a plethora of ways to describe the locking of lips. But Elle Hunt's favourite is one that's deeply unique to the Kiwi vocabulary.
In the latest instalment of her series on life as a NZ expat, Elle Hunt recounts the tedious minutiae of flying halfway across the world.
With the March 29 Brexit deadline bearing down on the country at an alarming speed, it's hard not to wonder whether staying in Britain is really worth it.
You might be excited about IKEA's possible (though far from guaranteed) arrival on this country's shores, but just wait until the first time you try to assemble a chest of drawers.
In the middle of last decade, one man dominated our local music television. Then he disappeared. Elle Hunt tracks down Joel Defries, and talks to him about life as a Kiwi TV star.
When she lived in New Zealand, Elle Hunt never really understood the fuss about Christmas. That all changed when she moved to London.
