Literally nowhere else in the world are the roads lined with cones as in New Zealand.

Up until a couple of years back Matthew Hooton was in my view our most insightful political commentator and his Herald essays a sheer delight for their colourful expression.

A new name to me on Stuff’s website, Conor Knell, opened his reporting career this week with a spectacular blunder, so;

“When Ricky Mitrov and his wife moved from Hawkes Bay to Dannevirke…”

Back in the 1990s when our once largest circulation newspaper Truth finally went belly-up, I bought the bound pre-war copies from the receivers for $15,000.

They just keep coming. Writing a guest article in the Listener on the importance of kids reading, Christine Fernghough came out with this cracker.