In a year-end review of polling and politics, one of America’s leading national pollsters, Scott Rasmussen, says most Americans have higher priorities than politics. And he says partisan thinking about...

With the Thanksgiving holiday in the rear view mirror, we can get past the carving of a turkey; the stuffing and sweet potatoes; and many slices of pumpkin pie that...

I’ve spent over two decades involved in school cricket. For the last 21 years I have coached teams as well as managed clubs and, for the last four seasons, maintained...

Crystalised ginger, vegemite, marmalade. Marmalade. Just thinking of marmalade makes the hairs rise, the back shudder and my gag reflex start. There is something about marmalade that has always done...

If there is one thing that we have learned over the last 18 months of the pandemic it is that people will believe the darnedest things, even when their health...

My definition of social science is that it makes things you thought were simple, very complicated. After all, it’s about culture, and that in itself is a total labyrinth. But...

“Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Māori” The language is the core of our Māori culture and mana (Sir James Henare 1989). Conservation. Kaitiakitanga. Restoration. Whakapapa. Language. Mātauranga....

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry,...

Most of our existing antibiotics were found in the dirt — with the help of pilots and missionaries. It started with the discovery of penicillin in 1928, streptomycin (1943) and...

Kawakawa – photo by Wendy Fox “… And the Lord spake, saying, ‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less....