“Memorials aren’t memories, they don’t just appear. They have motives and they are put there for a reason.” — Let me talk about power for a moment; because there is something on my chest. It is a large stone statue on Symonds Street which I walk past most days, a twelve-foot obelisk to which a bare-breasted woman extends a palm leaf in her right hand. The woman is ‘Zealandia’…

Today the longest bull market in New Zealand history came quietly to an end. It happened quietly because it was reported to have happened last week, although that declaration was too hasty, the bull technically still kicking. It is completely arbitrary, but a bull market officially ends when the share…

Every election is important, although some more than others. The election announced last week for September 19 is not set to be an unusually significant one. The polls are close, but the safer bet is in on the crowd-favourite Prime Minister winning a second term with a coalition that could…

I have started a blog on the worldwide web one which you were probably hoping I wouldn’t Forgive me it seemed valid so salient and so easy

By Daniel Brunskill “Nah, we don’t really do burnouts,” a man in his early twenties sitting in the passenger seat of a Japanese import says. “We mostly just cruise around…” His voice trails off as it is drowned out by the sound of screeching tyres and the smell of burning…