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Dear Mike Hosking , yet again ,
We’re glad to see that you’re reporting on the big stories . Like the...
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Thou shall worship whichever God most appeals to thee. Thou shall not go to war over worshipping different Gods. Thou shall live and...
Femo-fascist (noun) – A term used by men (usually of the older and white variety) who are still smarting after being criticised by women * for...
Dear Mike Hosking,
Here we go again.
We’d like to share with you a few words...
It’s one of the great questions of our time: can your vibrator kill you?
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Dear Right Honourable Bill English, Prime Minister of New Zealand,
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I have a confession to make.
I am a mansplainer.
I know, I know – it’s pretty damning. After all, I do just so happen to be an...
It’s getting harder to imagine by the...
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This year, in the lead up to International Women’s Day, we are celebrating our ‘...
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right?
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Seriously. My God.
The United States has just elected a Neanderthal as its president.
To rephrase: the most powerful...
Unless you’ve been living under a literal...
The idea that we need to question things in order to make sure we have a free and...
By now, the fact that Donald Trump has behaved...
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We’ve heard it all before, and we know that it’s an issue: we need to encourage...
Opera.
The...
History.
Just think on that word for a moment....
Over the past decade, I have unwittingly been testing the fight or flight hypothesis over and over again. I, like an alarming number of other Kiwi...
The United Nations. It’s a name that appears in virtually every world news...
Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Pol Pot. Saddam Hussein. Kim Jong Un. Bashar al-Assad. Vladimir...
No means no. Always.
Simple right? It’s one of the keys to consent – but is...
This past Saturday was rather ordinary in New Zealand, a humdrum winter’s day filled...
“Don’t be a cry-baby!”
“Suck it up!”
“What are you afraid of?”
Amongst the chaos of our modern world, there’s not much...
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What. The. Absolute. Fuck.
Seriously, what the fuck?
That was my initial reaction when I read about the latest travesty of the...
The Sims, one of the best-selling games of all time, has allowed players to do some pretty hilarious (and in...
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Memo
To : Female Senior High School Students in West Auckland
From : Your Discerning School Principals & Boards
