by David Wrigley | Jul 12, 2024 | Around NZ, Opinion, Uncategorized
Ah, the Fench. Despite everything, you’ve really got to hand it to a nation who’s most important national holiday celebrates a prison riot. This Bastille Day, put aside the snooty waiters of popular legend, the recent flirtation with the far right, the...
by David Wrigley | Jul 3, 2024 | Around NZ, Opinion
Great news for beleagured sub-editors as Cadbury’s announce production of ther sepia-tinted, marshmelllow-based chocolate fish has been halted and supplies are disappearing from our shelves forever. The news media has wasted no time noticing that the chocolate...
by David Wrigley | Jun 25, 2024 | Around NZ, At Home, Opinion
The weather may be a bit grim but respite is on the way: Matariki is rolling over the horizon to reunite us with loved ones, to point us towards the future, and to feed us with the great bounty that comes from our nation’s whenua, awa, and moana. Still...
by David Wrigley | May 29, 2024 | Opinion
Fans of people asking for donations to solve problems they themselves have caused are in luck this week, as RNZ publishes a piece gently questioning the supermarkets’ instore foodbank collections. Not since Scar started his fund for orphaned lion cubs has...
by David Wrigley | May 23, 2024 | Opinion
The news that James Millton, the co-founder of Millton Vineyards and a pioneer of bionynamic viticulture in this country, has been convicted of illegally transporting vine cuttings from Australia has sent shockwaves through the wine world in New Zealand and beyond....
