Society

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He's fine but it feels like I'm losing a friend and it's making me bitter. How do I say 'enough is enough'? 

Help Me Hera: My friend’s boyfriend Steve is always, always, always around

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Cum chairs, stolen pay and shitting bans: Workers share their horror stories with us

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India's election are under way. Here's what you need to know. 

What you need to know about the world’s biggest election, happening right now

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Why do so many owners think public bins in which to dispose of their dog's shit are a god-given right?

If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its shit

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A burnt-out corporate escapee explains how she gets by 'working as little as possible'.

The cost of being: A ‘semi-unemployed’ house-sitter with dwindling savings

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More than a thousand claims have been lodged with ACC over children, some younger than a year old, being injured by shopping trolleys in the last five years. 

The surprising number of babies being injured at the supermarket

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One works with wood, the other makes rugs – and their new exhibition is a perfect union of the two artists' practices.

In the studio with artist power couple Claudia Kogachi and Josephine Jelicich

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Dog of the month: Scout, who is so independent she could be a cat

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A new exhibition in Wellington showcases the faces behind your local goods and services.

Behind the counter: Wellington shopkeepers

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A proposed law might make it easier to fix the broken stuff laying around your house.

An afternoon at the Repair Café, where everyday objects get a second life

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What does a forever relationship look like when you don't believe in marriage? And how do you celebrate it?

Dreaming of my not-wedding day

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I'm on the wrong side of 40, I never pursued creative work and now my job is killing my soul. Help!

Help Me Hera: Do I even want the public sector job I might be about to lose?

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For all its virtues, Anzac Day – unlike its cousin Armistice Day – is a commemoration of war, not peace.

Seize the day

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Australian and New Zealand volunteers fought together in the Waikato War, yet still its place in the Anzac tradition is unacknowledged by our defence forces or RSA.

The first, forgotten Anzacs, more than 50 years before Gallipoli

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How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? 

The voices that vanish in a decimated newsroom 

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Welcome to the whirring wonders of one brain trying to align its actions with its beliefs in a system it thinks is evil.

Is it time for anti-capitalists to embrace shopping? An argument with myself

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'My husband puts 10% into KiwiSaver and I put 8%. We also save about $500/$600 a month.'

The cost of being: A frugal charity director with two teens and two houses

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Why Restore Passenger Rail has set its sights on stopping cruise ships

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Trust me, I know: I’ve been living in a damp, violent hotel in central Auckland for six months and counting.

There’s no need to make emergency housing harder. It’s hard enough already

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And no, I will not accept the miniature puddle-covered excuses for ice rinks that towns pull out of the cupboard every winter.

Hear me out: It’s embarrassing that Wellington doesn’t have an ice rink 

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Imagine how much more productive the government could be without the hypnotic glow of all that screen time? 

Where else should phones be banned? The most unruly classroom of all – parliament

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Results ranged from surprisingly yum to soul-destroying. 

Is cooking with dog food instead of meat actually fine? I gave it a go

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Labour market figures came in softer than the Reserve Bank had forecast, but they won't be enough to move the needle on interest rates. 

Unemployment up, business confidence down

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We thought we were starting a revolution of urban, modern, high amenity, socially connected housing. Here's what went wrong, and how the idea could still succeed.

My co-housing project failed, but I still think it’s a great idea

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Two decades ago this week, 15,000 people marched to parliament in a formidable display of outrage and kōtahitanga. 

A new generation of activism: Marking 20 years since the foreshore and seabed hīkoi

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The bookseller confessional delves into unusual requests, books not to read on a full stomach and more.

‘There is some properly foul content in this book’: What a bookseller reads

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The outpouring of anger over Maiki Sherman’s presentation of this week’s ‘nightmare’ poll is the real overreaction.

Polls are nothing if not a bit of political theatre 

We’ve all got teeth, so why can only some of us afford to look after them? 

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The Side Eye is a monthly non-fiction comic by Toby Morris, supported by NZ On Air. Read the rest of the series 

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We've all got teeth, so why can only some of us afford to look after them? 

The Spinoff

SocietyNovember 20, 2022

The Side Eye: The high price of bad teeth

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