Blogs

Spare me!! …. from the beggars

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny He was greasier than a butcher's chopping block. Had all the patter, the eyeballing, the shredding your resistance until your hand slides involuntarily towards that $5 in your back pocket.... Read More

A new book, a new album – yum!

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Last weekend I went to the Trinity Wharf Hotel launch of a big, bold and beautiful new book. 'Paperboy Writer', by Tommy Kapai Wilson, is a lavishly-illustrated collection... Read More

CAB opposes migrant visa change

Not Sure? Ask Us with Catherine Fletcher Changes announced by government to the Migrant Exploitation Protection Work Visa will further disadvantage exploited migrant workers in Aotearoa, according to Citizens Advice Bureau... Read More

Celebrating historic cricket triumphs

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Cricket is enjoying a turn at the top of the sporting podium in New Zealand. Our White Ferns won the Women's T20 World Cup, and the Black Caps enjoyed a series sweep... Read More

Sunspots

Weather Eye with John Maunder A sunspot is a relatively dark, sharply defined region on the solar disc - marked by an umbra, dark area, which is 2000 degrees cooler than the effective photospheric temperature. The average... Read More

Dear Work Wife…

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It started well enough. But soon turned to crap. It was a note from Unesco advising of the upcoming International Day of Tolerance on November 16. Imagine, a Day of Tolerance - recalibrating... Read More

Punk legends, swing royalty, and an African maestro

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Around 1980, I quit Southampton University and upped sticks for New Zealand, an uninformed decision fuelled by bad drugs and hubris. I spent my last night there drinking... Read More

Your voice, your power!

Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey Here's the truth: change doesn't happen on its own. If we want to see a fairer, more open political system, then we need to be the ones driving it. Sitting on the sidelines is easy,... Read More

The markers of excellence

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid A sparkling century from Auckland Aces batsman Michael Scalanders on Saturday, laid down the markers of excellence at the Bay Oval this season. The Auckland side was... Read More

Net Zero Three Viewpoints

Weather Eye with John Maunder My new book from Amazon -Extracts from a few pages from Chapter 1 Viewpoint One Net zero policies will have a trivial effect on temperature, but disastrous effects on people worldwide.... Read More

A Corben collection – and much more

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Labour weekend already? The year is rushing to a close. Only a week until an American election. The world is on a knife edge. We finally learn whether being a convicted... Read More

Psshh, psshh – art or an abhorrence?

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny OPINION Yuh love it. Yuh hate it. Garish, stylised, in-your-face, radical contemporary art. Graffiti art. But art nonetheless. Modern graffiti has been around since the 1970s in Philadelphia... Read More