Toby Manhire is the editor of the Spinoff. Where possible he collaborates with other people called Toby. Email him on toby@thespinoff.co.nz
Votes taken across the two big teachers’ unions, which represent almost 50,000 members, will bring a mass classroom closure across the country on May 29.
James Shaw tells the Spinoff why he's been bending over backwards to National's support.
Gases primarily emitted by agriculture get special treatment, and the law will not stand alone.
This is a big deal for NZ journalism. What will be paywalled and what won’t? And have they got the price right?
And she’s the only elected leader in the top 10.
Toby Manhire spends a day chasing kingis – and PM-adjacent yarns – with Fish of the Day host Clarke Gayford.
A whistlestop tour of the case for the National caucus to give Simon Bridges the boot in favour of JuCo, and the case for doing no such thing.
Ten days after the terrorist shooting in two Christchurch mosques took 50 lives, Jacinda Ardern spoke to Toby Manhire in her Beehive office.
The former NZ PM says the global policy boss for the online behemoth has contacted her saying he wants to visit NZ following the livestream of a mass terrorist murder at a Christchurch mosque
In New Zealand we're waiting to see if the all-powerful Facebook boss means what he says about 'moral responsibility'
What’s going on, and where, and what are the guidelines for participants?
As the United Kingdom wakes in yet another pool of fevered Brexit sweat, here are the essential things to know – and a glossary for bluffing your way through a conversation about it all
In the face of opposition to its involvement in mobile tech roll-outs around the world, the Chinese telecoms behemoth has unleashed several variations on a theme.
Joining dancing dildos, flags, Eminem and ponytails, getting-left-off-maps can now be added to our rolling collection of the Last Week Tonight show's coverage of NZ
Who'd bet against Collins having another tilt at the leadership before the next election?
The only plausible explanation for the Radio Sport host’s diatribe against my colleague is an elaborate attempt at performance art – the alternative is heroic incoherence
Spare a thought, please, for the commentators, battling desperately to string together coherent thoughts as the mercury hits ridiculous
Toby Manhire meets one of the most fascinating – and polarising – characters in NZ politics
Professor Juliet Gerrard on diversity in science, the political hot potatoes, and what constitutes science.
This year Winston Peters finally took the reins of power, albeit only for six weeks of maternity cover. We survey a truly extraordinary career
The bombshell story about a story that wasn’t a story sent shockwaves through the New Zealand reckons machine.
In the first days of 2018, as she embarked on a critical year for her newly formed government, Jacinda Ardern hosted Spinoff editor Toby Manhire at her Auckland home.
Today: Toby Manhire on an appalling trope that has too long haunted our screens.
The justice minister says he’s cautiously satisfied by assurances from the internet giant after they sent representatives to his parliamentary office yesterday in the wake of Spinoff revelations
To mark totemic resignation we asked a number of Leighton Smiths if they had a message for him.
That one of the world’s biggest companies rides roughshod over a New Zealand court name suppression tells you all you need to know about the giants of Silicon Valley, argues …
