Rosemary McLeod
Go easy on the British
I'm sorry we upset the British with our antics in London on Waitangi Day. They're not used to this sort of thing.
To be rich, have a butler and save Kirks
If only more rich people had the class of Mr Dotcom, whose habits have seized my imagination.
Kim Dotcom plotline reads like trashy novel
Men are weird, and also lazy. That is why we have prostitution.
A life not to be celebrated
So Blanket Man is dead. I see the call for a sculpture has begun already.
When sex becomes nostalgia
It's not easy to be a caring, liberal person, as the landlord in my family testifies.
The year ahead must be better
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All women become like their mothers, the great Oscar Wilde observed. Well, I've become like mine in a way I never anticipated, and which I find deeply embarrassing. I've become a weeper.
Much ado about a jolly stuffed toy
I remember the traumatic day my pyromaniac mother threw my golliwog on to the bonfire.
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Short mutts - bad, mad and dangerous to know
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Mothers should warn their impressionable daughters to be wary of short men. They're nothing but trouble.
Strip club all class
'It won't be sex", says the businessman involved in opening Wellington's newest strip club.
Elderly deserve Kindles
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Is it so hard to cheer old people up? With the rate of elderly New Zealanders killing themselves at its highest in a decade, something's wrong.
Pink man in black books owes an explanation
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After a lifetime of blurting out things better left unsaid, I feel for American presidential hopeful Rick Perry's disastrous brain freeze.
Where dogs are de rigueur
Handbags and hounds must match
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It's true that travel broadens the mind. The downside is post-travel blues.
Call it exploitation in the name of art
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Of all human activities, you'd think the least delightful to observe would likely be death, followed closely by childbirth.
Longing for the elusive praise
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Mine is a thankless trade. Surely all writing is. You beaver away with scarcely a word of encouragement - and then screens take the place of paper, and you become endangered as well as thankless.
Mixed messages over excessive boozing culture
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It is a strange and almost unbelievable fact that I was brought up in a family that almost never touched alcohol.
Time to face uncomfortable truths about our offenders
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Jail is for them, not us, is a white middle class understanding that's well-illustrated by the case of Rick Bryant, the ageing rocker currently appealing against his jail sentence for drug dealing.
Give dope a chance, it delivers bread, man
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Never underestimate The Donald. With one bound he's taken the ACT party into the late 60s to tune in, turn on and drop out.
In danger of falling into a haka stupor
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I can't blame Springbok coach Peter de Villiers for his comments on the omnipresent haka. I'm also starting to suffer from haka fatigue.
Cricketers' first appeal - no 'big buildings' please
Top council manager earns $300,000 plus
Engineering reports on cathedral due in March
Advice led to removal of safety cordon
Earthquake stress blamed for murder
Council rules 'limited' building repair
Woman stabbed, strangled by partner