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Journalist in Christchurch, New Zealand. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). Author of The Quiet Hero (2023), the story of a peaceful NZ volunteer's death in Ukraine. "Woke gronk" (X, 2024).
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I was really pleased and honoured to be able to write an obituary about Maurice Gee this week. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

As if this isn’t bad enough, they really wanted to set fags on fire

This is a lovely obituary for Maurice Gee. Thank you, @secondzeit.bsky.social. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Acting Prime Minister David Seymour has slammed Christchurch City Council staff, likening them to Russia’s authoritarian leader and accusing them of bullying the mayor into criticising the Regulatory Standards Bill.

Wondering if this Tim Wilson interview is the first time Proust has been mentioned in the NZ Woman's Weekly www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/ti...

Joe Bennett in Oslo www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

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Meanwhile in the other war Trump said he would stop

A flock of pigeons emerged from the broken windows of the second to top floor at the Gordon Wilson flats as Chris Bishop celebrated its imminent destruction. www.tickaroo.com/e/FZbHirY2CL...

Vale Maurice Gee, 1931 – 2025

I wrote a brief piece on Maurice Gee’s Under the Mountain for The Spinoff. RIP you legend of children’s fiction. thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-12-...

RIP

Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Maurice Gee has died. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked

A free copy of Saturday Night Fever* to anyone who can name the link between these two books *not really

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Oh no RIP Brian Wilson 💔

I have no memory of this: a song about NZ music featuring NZ singers, including brief appearances by Chris Knox and Straitjacket Fits youtu.be/NR0BSgb60wA

Nostalgia: it's the return of the Alliance Party in Chch. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

The best review of Ardern's memoir, A Different Kind of Power

Send him to outer space to find another race

My review of Jacinda Ardern's book www.nzreviewofbooks.com/a-different-...

Nothing ominous about this at all www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

We miss him

Outside New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is regarded as a liberal paragon among world leaders. Why did her own country turn on her?