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The Unity Books children’s book review roundup for summerPlus the bestselling children's books of 2025.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 18th December, 2025⚖️
A definitive list of what belongs in the fridge – and what doesn’tYou might be sabotaging your food (and flavour) without realising it. By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 18th December, 2025Contributing writer
Help Me Hera: A festive miscellany of adviceA smorgasbord of wisdom for almost every possible situation.By Hera Lindsay Bird | 18th December, 2025Contributing writer
A late poll lift for Labour as parliament calls time for the yearWith National now eight points behind Labour, this wasn't the send-off to 2025 the government was hoping for.By Catherine McGregor | 18th December, 2025Contributing writer
When Chlöe met Corbyn – and Varoufakis and Piketty and Polanski and Mazzucato and…On her recent European trip, Greens co-leader Chloe Swarbrick met with a who's who of the political and intellectual left. So what did she learn?By Max Rashbrooke | 18th December, 2025Contributing writer
The great idea that almost everyone absolutely hatesIt would save 25,000 tonnes of carbon emissions a year and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill by half. There’s just one issue.By Hayden Donnell | 18th December, 2025Senior writer
Government considering ban on ‘virginity testing’Justice minister Paul Goldsmith will seek advice on outlawing the invasive pseudoscientific practice of virginity testing, after a formal request was made by another minister.By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 17th December, 2025Politics reporter
The best books of 2025: The people’s choicePolitical memoirs, nature writing and sinister fiction – the books readers loved this year.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 17th December, 2025⚖️
Meet the 81-year-old great-grandmother gearing up to play Rhythm and Vines 'We love to have fun and dance and sing, so don’t write us off just yet.'By Alex Casey | 17th December, 2025Senior writer
The impact on NZ if the AI bubble burstsThere will be financial and technological implications for us if the whole thing blows up.By Duncan Greive | 11th December, 2025Founder
An A to Z of The Spinoff’s best books of 2025The year's best reads, as chosen by our panel of experts.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 10th December, 2025⚖️
Every hydroslide at Christchurch’s record-breaking new aquatic centre, rankedThe Parakiore hydroslides are a very late contender for 2025’s best thing.By Alex Casey | 10th December, 2025Senior writer
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