The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the week 11 – 18 September. Welcome to The Spinoff event guide, ...

Whoever gets the top job at our southernmost city council has a reputation to restore, a budget to balance and some big decisions to make.

NZ First’s Shane Jones was feeling especially virile as he espoused new geothermal exploration and criticised the “opposition spokesman for energy”. Megan Woods made a point of order to note that she ...

In the shifting sands of local politics, the longevity of The People’s Choice in Christchurch is an outlier.

The media fawned over Brych. They were enamoured by the charismatic young doctor and his potential cure for cancer. Newspaper ...

Brown’s response: a small group socialised before the scale of the emergency was clear, and once it was, the alcohol stopped. It’s far from the only bad headline for Brown: Last month, the NZ Herald’s ...

There’s been a lot of talk about our economy going at two different speeds, with politicians, economists and media all ...

In Australia, citizen juries have achieved what parliamentarians alone could not. Would they work here?

This is the almost unbelievable story of Vlastimil “Milan” Brych. A man who left a trail of destruction around the world, ...

Prime minister Christopher Luxon missed Tuesday’s question time to attend his son’s graduation. In his absence, his two deputies took the main billing: David Seymour, who answered questions as acting ...

In terms of work reading I’m re-reading Dark Academia: How Universities Die by Peter Fleming which is a book that explores how bureaucratic and neoliberal structures have killed the intellectual ...

Kyrylo Cyril Kutcher is an essayist writing on Ukraine, Russia’s imperialism, historical context and global impact, international security and strategy, and global governance and justice.