Tag: Jenny Nicholls editorial
Socks in the laundromat of life
There’s nothing like pulling on a pair of icy leggings from the line which haven’t quite dried yet. Yarg! Gah! etc.
In what feels like...
The first rule of ‘wellness’ – don’t be poor
By the time this issue of Gulf News is a day old, the United Kingdom will have a new prime minister.
The UK likes to...
Make Aotearoa Mutton Again
I ate a lot of Milo sandwiches as a child. My mother was convinced, by a television ad featuring energetic girls playing basketball, that...
Tikanga Māori is the first law of Aotearoa
Here’s a quiz for you.
Guess the missing word in this paragraph from Te Ara - The Online Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
“Māori customary law, parts...
What if the moon is made of cheese?
My first real job, weeding in my uncle’s nursery, got off to a dramatic start after I accidentally pulled out a long line of...
Austerity journalism
My initiation into professional writing got off to a rocky start.
“What’s this shit?”, my former partner (a senior journalist) asked me, screwing an early...
Savage maths: the cuts to disability funding
My nephews Ben and James were born with a kind of intellectual disability called Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), a genetic condition which causes anxiety...
It’s shameful that young people can’t afford to live here
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon cares about renters. We know this, because he has just given landlords a golden Easter egg of $2.1 billion –...
Back to combustion junkmobiles?
I remember my first driving test as if it was yesterday. The testing officer was an officious cross between Severus Snape and Warden Hodges...
Public service announcement
I’ve always wanted to try Stinking Bishop, even though it has been voted the smelliest cheese in Britain. “If you can overcome the smell,...
