Madeleine Chapman is a former senior writer at The Spinoff and a current painter of garages
Watching our prime minister handle the Covid-19 response is like watching an NBA star burst out from the pack.
An extract from Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader, the new biography of the prime minister by Madeleine Chapman.
The spectre of Covid-19 got me wondering: how many things do my hands come into contact with every day?
A Madeleine Chapman guide to the best and worst of the change range.
A Southland school has been criticised for requiring girls to see a counsellor before opting to wear shorts as their uniform. But it’s merely a symptom of a bigger problem.
Summer is the time for buying dollar bags at the dairy. It's also the time for Madeleine Chapman to rank every single one of them.
Every year the Salvation Army releases a report assessing areas like child poverty and housing. Here's how we're doing in 2020.
EVolocity is using innovation, creativity and the incoming electric vehicle revolution to encourage kids into STEM education. Madeleine Chapman talks to its founders about the how and why of their mission.
In a classic case of better late than never, pioneering Māori tennis player Ruia Morrison was honoured at the 2020 ASB Classic in Auckland.
A recent survey showed millennials are having less sex than older generations. Mark Richardson hates it.
The Church of England says no to sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The Church of New Zealand isn't too fussed.
Detox teas have been taken off shelves after being shown to include a pharmacy-only laxative ingredient.
It'll improve your life a tiny, tiny bit. What more do you want?
Embrace the many zero-alcohol drink options out there and stop bloody serving OJ.
After three years, Serena Williams is a champion again. Sadly not everyone was too thrilled about a mother competing.
Some people are just untidy. Madeleine Chapman is one of them, and this year she's decided to embrace the mess.
Nick Kroll discusses lessons he's learned in comedy, including how an applicator tampon works.
Eighteen months into her first term as prime minister, Jacinda Ardern faced a formidable task: communicate what happened on March 15, embrace a ruptured community, and force through real reform.
Summer reissue: Madeleine Chapman goes through starchy hell to rank every flavour of chip available in New Zealand.
Summer reissue: Madeleine Chapman wrote a book and was asked to speak about it at a writers festival. The problem was, nobody wanted to listen.
God may have created all his children in his image, but the same cannot be said for his hymns. Some church songs are good, some are bad, and some are absolute bangers.
Madeleine Chapman looks back at ten years of global migration from the real world to the online world.
A book interview turns into a business and life lesson for Madeleine Chapman.
When Barbara Cox joined a football team in 1973, she was one of the first women in the country to do so.
The third instalment in a three-part series on the Great Journeys of New Zealand.
The second instalment in a three-part series on the Great Journeys of New Zealand.
