PAT PILCHER likes calling a spade a spade, and he isn’t impressed at National Party head Chris Luxon’s attack on our unemployed youth.
Life
The great subscription rort
Subscription services are convenient but they also add up to a huge cost each year. Here’s what PAT PILCHER found.
The Famous Five revived – a queer old thing
GARY STEEL is a boomer dad with a 7-year-old who is just as infatuated with Enid Blyton’s creation as he was as a child back in the 1960s.
Both sides now – news media’s big failure
Despite the digital revolution nothing has replaced old-fashioned news reporting. But it’s looking rather arthritic, writes GARY STEEL.
The preposterous packaging pandemic – White Glo Hemp Seed Oil Toothpaste
In this occasional new series GARY STEEL looks at outrageous and unnecessary packaging. Today: White Glo Hemp Seed Oil Toothpaste.
Getting Older – Age against the machine
Covid and Cancer get all the attention but there’s an epidemic of chronic disease niggling at the wellbeing of a generation, writes GARY STEEL.
Range Anxiety – the diary of an EV newbie
Episode 1, in which GARY STEEL bites the bullet, buys his first electric vehicle, and discovers the real meaning of “range anxiety”.
National predictably cries foul at voting reforms
We need more government transparency – not less – writes PAT PILCHER of National’s sad moaning over the upcoming voting reforms.