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The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending December 12That book about the hare is back.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 12th December, 2025⚖️
The Friday Poem: ‘The Ancestral Call’ by Ari PrakashThe new moon spins into the distance in this week's poem.By Ari Prakash | 12th December, 2025Guest writer
Sophie Barker haunted Dunedin’s Larnach Castle – now she’s running the city'People think living in a castle would be glamorous – but it was just cold.'By Tara Ward | 12th December, 2025Staff writer
The Spinoff’s favourite TV shows of 2025From the horrors of Adolescence to the twists of The Celebrity Traitors UK and beyond.By Group Think | 12th December, 2025A bunch of people
The cost of being: A government worker saving for gender-affirming surgery'Surgery is looking like it will be around $40,000, so that's where most of it is going for the next few years.'By The Cost of Being | 12th December, 2025Guest writer
Could Wellington finally be ready to merge?Wellington's mayors have agreed to explore amalgamation – a decade after the last attempt collapsed. By Catherine McGregor | 12th December, 2025Contributing writer
Pour one out for New Zealand’s pay phones: this is the last call'The majority of phone booths will be disconnected and stop working in the coming months.'By Emma Gleason | 12th December, 2025Contributing writer
The Black Caps have lost what used to be their best qualityEven in the darkest times, we could always take pride in the Black Caps' fielding. Those days appear to be gone.By Hayden Donnell | 12th December, 2025Senior writer
One MP, One Pint: Kahurangi Carter wants you to make more memesThe Green MP on her parody and satire bill, meeting a teenage Chlöe Swarbrick, and the Act minister she'd like to share a drink with.By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 11th December, 2025Politics reporter
Ruth Richardson v Nicola Willis: the mother of all epochal debatesTwo National finance ministers, three decades apart, are locking horns. But just how different is the political environment of today to the time of the juggernaut?By Toby Manhire | 10th December, 2025Editor-at-large
OpinionChris Bishop is the minister for abundanceAfter two years of major housing, infrastructure and planning reforms, Chris Bishop may have done more for the abundance agenda than any other politician on the planet.By Joel MacManus | 10th December, 2025
RIP RMA: Government prays for economic boom with new billsThe government is hailing a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity to finally unburden ourselves from the millstone weighing down our country'.By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 9th December, 2025
The UK's verdict on the Jacinda Ardern doco: 'Fully human' vs 'shameless'It might have been cosy on Graham Norton's couch, but the British newspapers were divided.By Janhavi Gosavi | 9th December, 2025
Juggernaut 2: The last time a NZ prime minister was rolled in a caucus coupIn the sixth and final episode, Jenny Shipley mounts a coup to replace Jim Bolger, and Winston Peters recoils. By Juggernaut | 9th December, 2025