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....
by David Wrigley | May 16, 2024 | Opinion
When the medieval catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas wrote in his Summa Theologica: “It is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another’s property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery” he...
by David Wrigley | May 10, 2024 | Drinks, Opinion
Since we ran the first installment of this two-parter, we’ve found ourselves falling back in love with some of the grape varietals that first put New Zealand on the map as a wine producing nation and that we’ve been a touch guilty of taking for granted as...
by David Wrigley | May 2, 2024 | Opinion
A new study published today has found that David Seymour is a bit of a dummy who should never have been allowed anywhere near a decision making role, let alone associate education minister or, god help us all, deputy prime minister. Oh wait. That’s not what it...