A flag for our brighter future

It looks as if John Key is going to decide which flag we have. So I thought I would take the pressure off him by designing a flag he would instantly fall in love with.

One notable omission from All Blacks squad

Spare a thought for those who failed to make the All Blacks Rugby World Cup squad. One man in particular will be feeling gutted.

Win or lose, McCaw will be remembered as a great–unless we lose

He is our greatest ever rugby player. A true champion, and if the All Blacks don’t win the Rugby World Cup he should be burned in effigy.

The King wants your TV

There was consternation this week as it was announced that King Tuheitia wants all of your things.

On moving to the centre

If I had a dollar for every opinion thinkpiece I have ever read about where on the political spectrum the New Zealand Labour Party should position itself, I’d be richer than Croesus. Even richer than Colin Craig’s lawyers.

Those worms are vicious little bastards

It’s good to see the government finally doing something about the earthworm problem. But why has it taken so long?

Is Mike Hosking biased?

Is Mike Hosking biased? Is the Pope a Catholic? Actually, I’m not so sure he is.

Richie McCaw: Thank God he’s not Hitler

We really dodged a bullet when Richie McCaw decided to devote himself to being the best rugby player in the world. Imagine if he’d instead been born in Austria in 1889, taken up painting watercolours, fought in the Great War, and then established the Nazi Party. The rest of the world wouldn’t have stood a chance.