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The Fold: Myths and truths in modern advertising
Two years in the soil: Lessons from real-life regenerative agriculture trials
Who showed Christopher Luxon’s TikTok to Travis Kelce? A Spinoff investigation
The cost of being: An airline pilot with a ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ financial personality
Foreign buyers are being welcomed back, and they have Winston Peters to thank
Windbag: Abolishing Thursdays, bulldozing the Johnsonville mall, and other notes from the campaign trail
New Zealand’s foreign buyer ban has been binned (kind of)
New To Streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week
Review: Pukunati is a raw exposé of our fat bias
The buzziest deals on offer in Wellington’s renters’ market
AI is cheaper than therapy but talking to other people is free
Why homeownership no longer guarantees a comfortable retirement
Race briefing: A bumpy road ahead for the next crop of Otago Regional councillors
Is it time for New Zealand to have publicly owned supermarkets?
‘One little corner for the children’: New Zealand’s lost children’s book pages
Ko wai tēnei: Hana Mereraiha Skerrett-White
The Weekend: We’re all going to be ashamed of this
‘People were appalled’: Jackie van Beek’s Taskmaster NZ confession
‘Don’t scare me, I’m just coming back for my jandals’: Tales from the haunted horror maze
Straight Line Was a Lie: Liz Stokes on writing The Beths’ most personal album yet
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 30
The Friday Poem: ‘Farewell’ by Yvette Thomas
Big celebrities on the Shotover Jet, ranked from least to most shit-scared
Why can’t I just be happy for Auckland FC?
The cost of being: A small town teacher aide who lives to give
Government ditches tougher alcohol rules in favour of red-tape cuts
A handy guide to all the markets in Auckland
The Fold: RNZ’s Paul Thompson on that bombshell radio report
Meet Gary Chiles, parliament’s weed man
The birth of Frankenstein, sexy ghosts and King Fling: The Spinoff event guide
Can late-stage capitalism survive without insurance?
A plea to Gen X leaders: please stop being cringe on social media
What do you do after your student project has gone to the ICJ?
The 2025 New World Beer & Cider Awards winners, reviewed
Help Me Hera: I can’t stop stalking my boyfriend’s ex on Instagram
Brown and Luxon clash over bed levy as major events slip from Auckland’s grasp
Should we fret about public debt?
The case for New Zealand action against Israel
Infinity Sessions, reviewed: Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Troy Kingi and more
‘Surprisingly intimate’: Brenda Channer on running NZ’s Bookshop of the Year
One MP, One Pint: Star signs and being woke with Chris Penk
Removing the ‘four wellbeings’ from councils is a step in the wrong direction
Taylor Swift will never again perform in New Zealand. Unless…
High Court challenge puts Māori health reforms under scrutiny
A deep dive into the voters swinging away from National and Luxon
The good, bad and auē of the Tāmaki Makaurau byelection debate
Watch live: Infinity Sessions presents Tami Neilson with Ebony Lamb
What we saw at Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival this week
Remembering John Barnett, a colossus of New Zealand culture
The secret history of the Taskmaster NZ throne
Newly sober nation begs for one more hit of high house prices
The cost of being: A sex worker saving for top surgery
Reserve Bank independence under spotlight as PM weighs in
A genius plan to get Māori on board with NZ First’s ‘brown tape’ initiative
Windbag: Beating the Bish and the strange, shifting politics of housing
Review: Mary is a slick spectacle that wants to be messy
Meet the man behind New Zealand’s largest hairdressing collection
What would Sarah Jessica Parker think of Carrie Bradshaw’s novel?
Some of New Zealand’s biggest Substack writers are leaving the platform. What’s going on?
How plant closures are pushing provincial towns to the brink
Grist for the mill: the slow death of New Zealand’s industry towns
An evening with the four men vying to replace the ‘Trump of the north’
Watch live: Infinity Sessions presents Troy Kingi with Bret McKenzie
Watch live: Infinity Sessions presents Tiny Ruins with Jazmine Mary
Ko wai tēnei: Chey Milne
A scrappy little love story about theatre
A hilarious, moving and buoyant night of poetry connecting Aotearoa to Scotland
Indifference is consent: An essay about Palestine and New Zealand
‘Completely by accident’: How Karen O’Leary got her big Chippy scoop
The Weekend: Has the 2026 election campaign already started?
Watch live: Infinity Sessions presents Bic Runga with Chaii
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 22
Key takeaways from a big night for Wellington restaurants at the Cuisine Good Food Awards
Is this the best Taskmaster NZ cast yet?
Introducing Aotearoa’s next poet laureate
The cost of being: A solo parent navigating redundancy
Announcing the 2025 National Schools Poetry Award winner
Right to repair bill stalls as NZ retreats on waste reform
Everything you need to know ahead of the Women’s Rugby World Cup
Fear and zoning at Auckland Council
Watch live: Infinity Sessions presents Dave Dobbyn with Lawrence Arabia
National Poetry Day, hikidashi and Austen adapted: The Spinoff event guide
What we saw at Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival this week
Echo Chamber: Todd Stephenson’s big break
‘Quadruple 4D chess’: How NZ’s Lisa Holmes prepared for her Survivor return
Help Me Hera: My partner is not a finance bro
One OCR, two economies: why yesterday’s rate cut may not be enough
‘It shouldn’t be this hard’: What it takes to have a Sensitive Claim accepted by ACC
One MP, One Pint: Judith Collins on leadership regrets and writing a murder mystery novel
‘Vibes-based poetry’: Ray Shipley and Erik Kennedy in conversation
Echo Chamber: Wait, who’s keeping track of the rules around here?
A massive district with many challenges – and a main town that might need to move
Could we be saying ‘ka kite’ to our conservation estate?
Secondary teachers walk off the job as government digs in
David Seymour was right to question our compulsory helmet laws
Why tens of thousands of teachers and nurses are striking this week
A tired teacher explains why they’re striking tomorrow
A frame-by-frame analysis of Chris Luxon and Chris Hipkins dancing in public
Infinity Sessions, reviewed: Neil Finn, Don McGlashan, The Beths, Tom Scott and LEAO
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