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Mike Hosking

Gone By Lunchtime (Image: Tina Tiller)

Gone By Lunchtime: The curious case of Christopher Luxon’s Bayly equivocations

A double bill of political comedy.
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By The Spinoff | 4th March, 2025
Staff writers
Just a man, standing in front of a rugby league club, asking them to take him to the promised land
Opinion

Mike Hosking is one of the Warriors' biggest fans, and it doesn't make a lick of sense

His 'common sense' world view holds little time for losers and dreamers... with one major exception.
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By Pete Douglas | 4th October, 2024
Guest writer
(Image: Tina Tiller)

The five most baffling moments from Melissa Lee’s post-Newshub interviews

Don't ask her to talk about the process.
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By Stewart Sowman-Lund | 11th April, 2024
The Bulletin editor
Please welcome… Cowboy Carter

Aotearoa was first in the world to hear Cowboy Carter – here’s what we thought

Chris Luxon has weighed in, and now so are we.
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By Group Think | 3rd April, 2024
A bunch of people
Image: Archi Banal

Our people today: The evolution of New Zealand’s 7pm current affairs shows

We've been served up a delicious chaser to the daily news bulletin since before man walked on the moon. How much has really changed?
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By Alex Casey | 15th January, 2024
Senior writer
Image: Archi Banal

Our people today: The evolution of New Zealand’s 7pm current affairs shows

We've been served up a delicious chaser to the daily news bulletin since before man walked on the moon. How much has really changed?
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By Alex Casey | 1st November, 2023
Senior writer
The first debate is on Tuesday evening at 7pm on 1News. This is not the set. Image: Gettya

Let the debates begin

Ding! Ding! It's round one of Chris versus Chris. How much is at stake, and do debates really make a difference?
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By Toby Manhire | 18th September, 2023
Editor-at-large
The King, the Hosk and the Shoes (Image: Archi Banal)

Mike Hosking thinks he just bought the king’s coronation shoes. Really?

They're shoes fit for a king – but are they shoes fitted for the king?
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By Stewart Sowman-Lund | 5th May, 2023
The Bulletin editor
Hot takes through the ages from Mike Hosking and Kate Hawkesby

Hosking and Hawkesby – hot takes through the ages

From the Big Bang to Cyclone Gabrielle, everyone just needs to calm the f down.
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By Toby Manhire | 16th February, 2023
Editor-at-large
Seven Sharp’s original hosting trio (Image: TVNZ / Archi Banal)

Rewatching Seven Sharp’s very first episode, 10 years on

A decade ago today, John Key brandished a sword at Heather du Plessis-Allan and a new type of current affairs show was born.
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By Stewart Sowman-Lund | 4th February, 2023
The Bulletin editor
Paul Henry (Photo: Supplied / Design: Tina Tiller)

‘I have an opinion on everything’: My afternoon drinking gin with Paul Henry

The former broadcaster opens up about the state of breakfast TV, how he avoided cancellation and more.
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By Stewart Sowman-Lund | 3rd November, 2022
The Bulletin editor
When Mike Hosking met Charlie’s Angels and Destiny’s Child

When Mike Hosking met Charlie’s Angels and Destiny’s Child

The early 2000s were a different time.
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By Alex Casey | 13th March, 2022
Senior writer
I can’t believe Stuart Nash was right
Opinion

I can’t believe Stuart Nash was right

The doubters owe him an apology (or a case of expensive wine).
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By Madeleine Chapman | 16th December, 2021
Special correspondent
Getty Images

Is Covid-19 really compromising our hospitals’ cancer care?

Fact-checking the claim that almost half of new cancers went undetected because of last year's lockdowns – and that it could be happening again now.
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By Colin Peacock | 28th September, 2021
Guest writer
Jason Hoyte as thinly veiled Mike Hosking satire Malcolm White in TVNZ’s Talkback. (Photo: TVNZ)

Review: TVNZ’s Mike Hosking satire Talkback struggles to get through 

There’s rich source material, plenty of funny actors and a great plot hook. So why does this series find it so hard to make a connection?
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By Alex Braae | 30th June, 2021
Staff Writer
NZ is leading the global pack on GDP. Is it worth breaking out the bubbles over?

NZ is leading the global pack on GDP. Is it worth breaking out the bubbles over?

The numbers are encouraging. But is NZ really out of the Covid-19 economic woods?
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By George Driver | 28th June, 2021
Contributing writer
Jambo: First Blood. Illustration: Tina Webb Morris

Jamboree is back! The triumphant return of The Spinoff’s gossip column

Six years ago, The Spinoff launched its gossip column. A few weeks later The Spinoff buried its gossip column forever. And now ...
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By Our Cub Reporter | 16th June, 2021
Guest writer
Keep your complaints about te reo Māori to yourself, BSA rules

Keep your complaints about te reo Māori to yourself, BSA rules

There have been 27 enquiries about the use of te reo Māori since June last year and two formal complaints. The BSA says don’t bother.
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By Leonie Hayden | 9th March, 2021
Contributing writer
Mike Hosking lashes out at Jacinda Ardern as she quits weekly Newstalk ZB slot

Mike Hosking lashes out at Jacinda Ardern as she quits weekly Newstalk ZB slot

The prime minister is 'running for the hills', says the Newstalk ZB host.
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By Justin Giovannetti | 8th March, 2021
Contributing writer
I watched three months of Mike’s Minute in a single day and this is what happened

I watched three months of Mike’s Minute in a single day and this is what happened

VIDEO | What kind of toll does watching three straight months of Mike Hosking's video show Mike's Minute take on the human psyche?
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By José Barbosa | 5th March, 2021
Senior Content Creator

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