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Inflation two-step

As George Orwell recognised in 1984, politics is the art of double-speak. You condemn an obvious evil, while at the…

11 Jan 2025

Hark! No herald angels sang

Not everyone will have noticed, but the strains of carol singing were heard less this past Christmas than in previous…

11 Jan 2025

Albanounceables galore

Last June, while Nato leaders and partners gathered in New York to discuss the threat from Russia and China, Prime…

11 Jan 2025

Beware a Minsky moment

In August 1998, Russia devalued the rouble, failed to make repayments on local-currency debt and imposed a three-month halt on…

11 Jan 2025

Business/Robbery, etc

What really was the stimulus that, in the latter months of 2024, awakened corporate America from its woke nightmare of…

11 Jan 2025

Politics in the Pothole State

Luckily, we have been able to escape the Pothole State for a few weeks. The car is safely in the…

11 Jan 2025

Delaying the inevitable

There are ways to make decisions and there are the actual decisions one makes. The former is about procedures, the…

11 Jan 2025

Crumbling Crinks

The crumbling of the Crinks – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea – is one of the most heartening developments of…

11 Jan 2025

Beach turf wars are dividing Australia

At a time when Donald Trump threatens to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal, China is flexing its military and…

9 Jan 2025

Why the French state fears Elon Musk

The French government on Wednesday declared war on X and on Elon Musk, directly threatening to ban the platform. Speaking…

9 Jan 2025

The truth about the LA wildfires

It is like a Hollywood disaster movie with a difference: it really is happening close to Hollywood, and the stars…

9 Jan 2025

The Democrats are changing their tune on Trump

The early attitudes from Democrats toward the new Trump administration are difficult to judge in a vacuum – and that’s…

9 Jan 2025

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Operation Resolution: cleaning up after HMNZS Manawanui

HMNZS Manawanui, formally a chirpy red and yellow MV Edda Fonn, sank on October 6 much to the shock of…

16 Dec 2024

Why is this New Zealand airport clamping down on hugs?

‘Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world,’ Hugh Grant famously offered in the heartwarming opening scene of Love,…

24 Oct 2024

How New Zealand managed to sink a tenth of its naval fleet

New Zealand just lost one tenth of its naval defence fleet. The HMNZS Manawanui – the jewel in the nation’s small military…

7 Oct 2024

How does New Zealand solve a problem like China?

New Zealand’s most important trading partner is also the nation’s biggest security headache, according to a new risk-assessment report produced…

8 Sep 2024

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Aussie life

It’s hardly surprising that Doris Day’s jaunty homage to Marcus Aurelius ‘Que sera, sera’ was one of the 1956’s best-selling…

11 Jan 2025

Language

At the start of each year, Lake Superior State University publishes a list of ‘Banished Words.’ These are the words…

11 Jan 2025

In defence of BA’s new loyalty scheme

One of my favourite cartoons shows a couple sitting in luxury at the front of a plane, the wife peeking…

11 Jan 2025

What’s the point of a minster?

The Philip Larkin Society has sponsored a pew in the huge medieval church of Holy Trinity, Hull. Larkin died 40…

11 Jan 2025

Bad vibrations: Lazarus Man, by Richard Price, reviewed

Richard Price’s tenth novel follows four characters in the wake of a tenement building collapse in Harlem that kills six…

11 Jan 2025

Alexander Pushkin – Russia’s greatest letter-writer

Alexander Pushkin was brought to ruin by his letters more than once. When the Russian postal police intercepted a letter…

11 Jan 2025

The unfulfilled life: Ask Me Again, by Clare Sestanovich, reviewed

Eva, the protagonist of Clare Sestanovich’s debut novel, is a young woman struggling to find her place in the world.…

11 Jan 2025

Norman Lewis – a restless adventurer with a passion for broken-down places

The travel writer Norman Lewis, the son of a Welsh psychic medium, died in Essex in 2003 at the age…

11 Jan 2025

Outlandish epic: Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, reviewed

In 1948, Natalia Ginzburg, then an editor at the Italian publishing house Einaudi, received an 800-page brick of a manuscript…

11 Jan 2025

Rebellion and repression: Oromay, by Baalu Girma, reviewed

‘We don’t want a James Bond adventure here,’ warns a jumpy spymaster as he grapples with an anti-state conspiracy in…

11 Jan 2025

A winter’s tale: Brightly Shining, by Ingvild Rishoi, reviewed

With Christmas only just gone, I hope it’s not too late to recommend Ingvild Rishoi’s bittersweet seasonal novella – a…

11 Jan 2025

The Vikings never really went away

For many people, the mental picture of a Viking is of a blond giant in a horned helmet leaping out…

11 Jan 2025