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When terrestrial TV feels like a holidayAway from wifi and streaming platforms, you are forced to rely on trained programming professionals. And maybe that's a good thing.By Alex Casey | 27th December, 2025Senior writer
An alarm bell: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey, reviewedThe NZ novel we called the book of the year.By Claire Mabey | 27th December, 2025Books editor
The birth of the Wests: How Outrageous Fortune came to beTwenty years ago, New Zealand television’s most famous family stormed onto our screens. By Tara Ward | 27th December, 2025Staff writer
Why I was wrong about the Well_ngton signHow a big shiny sign on the Wellington waterfront exposed a problem with local news.By Joel MacManus | 27th December, 2025Senior writer
A Beautiful Family: a haunting summer holiday novel, reviewedIt's the buzzworthy local debut that caught the attention of one of the world’s best literary agents. But does it live up to the hype?By Claire Mabey | 26th December, 2025Books editor
Inside the dying industry of cargo ship travelUntil 2020, it was possible to book a voyage on a cargo ship. Today, it's virtually impossible, despite being a greener, languid alternative to air travel.By Talisker Scott Hunter | 26th December, 2025Guest writer
‘Fallen between the cracks’: The mystery of New Zealand’s lost emo anthem‘Crawl’ by Atlas was the biggest local hit of 2007. Why isn't it available on any streaming services?By Alex Casey | 26th December, 2025Senior writer
‘I’ve watched them all’: David Lomas on his soft spot for rom coms'They are a bit like my own programme I suppose, in that they always have a happy ending.'By My Life in TV | 26th December, 2025Guest writer
Is homemade butter worth it? Two methods, put to the testWith butter prices slipping through our fingers, we took matters into our own hands. By Alex CaseySenior writer & Anna Rawhiti-Connell | 26th December, 2025Senior writer
A tribute to Neil, Auckland’s legendary singing train managerWe give away knighthoods for having lots of money or, worse, being a politician. We should be giving them to people like Neil instead.By Hayden Donnell | 24th December, 2025Senior writer
OpinionI can’t cope with shoppers reversing into mall carparks at this time of yearIt might be safer and his friends might disagree with him, but Tom Augustine is stuck behind reverse parkers and is struggling.By Tom Augustine | 23rd December, 2025
So what are the kids up to for New Year’s these days? 'I'd rather take ketamine than drink a box of beers.'By Alex Casey | 23rd December, 2025
From Bondi, we must learn Jewish and Palestinian safety and liberation are intertwinedAntisemitic violence is wrong in the way all forms of racist violence are wrong.By Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs | 22nd December, 2025
I was ashamed to grow up in a council house. Now, I feel lost without itLove made Yawynne Yem self-conscious about living in a Wellington council house. But now she wishes she could take her boyfriend to see where she once covered black mould with One Direction posters.By Yawynne Yem | 20th December, 2025
