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Gut punch, food, antibiotics, the microbiome - what's driving NZ's rocketing rates of inflammatory bowl disease?
Bastion or BS? the risk of criticising the Rwandan regime
Marrow focus, the truth about bone and calcium

Spilt milk

Excess dietary calcium goes into toilets, not bones.

3 mins

To the Max

The testosterone and torments of late adolescence are centre stage in this novel about finding your place in life.

2 mins

A chemical killer

A new book outlines the life of a woman who may well have been New Zealand’s most prolific poisoner. What was it that led police to exhume the body of her husband from its watery grave?

7 mins

Creating the WOW factor

Meg Williams, in charge of the biggest festival involving a bunch of people wearing wacky outfits, admits she's not very flamboyant in her own dressing.

8 mins

Leaving it all on the park

After cancer treatment, Graeme Downes takes stock of a musical life leading The Verlaines and lecturing future generations of songwriters.

9 mins

Wrong message

A UK journalist who came here to talk about Rwanda’s authoritarian regime found herself the victim of a social media hate campaign.

8 mins

Busting a gut

IBD is escalating, seemingly thanks to the Western lifestyle, and New Zealand has one of the highest rates in the world.

10 mins

The point of Peters

There's been much to admire about the NZ First leader's politics over the years, but where has it got him?

5 mins

Don't call us ...

Finland's ingenuity galvanised the rapid global uptake of cellphones, so it's paradoxical the country's latest claim to fame should be the elevation of no-speakies to a new commercial opportunity.

2 mins

He is here

In the week my brother died, there was a storm in the universe.

2 mins

Ditch the rich

A neighbour recently told me he's going Jeff Bezos-free, a decision that resonated with me immediately, as I have long resented the cone-headed tycoon for stealing the name of the world's mightiest river to drown the rest of us in his lucre lust.

3 mins

Lifting the lid

NZ First's bid to regulate toilet use should be flushed away, but adolescents' access to transgender medicine deserves serious attention.

4 mins

A big noise

Scott Kara pays tribute to alternative rock figurehead Steve Albini.

3 mins

Fiddling on the roof

After the doco recut by Peter Jackson, the original Let It Be returns as odd as ever.

2 mins

Get with the pilgrim

Australian film-maker Bill Bennett thought turning his Camino de Santiago experience into a movie would be a good walk ruined. But he did it anyway.

2 mins

The real queen of Bridgerton

Regency women would have a ball if they were transported from 'the Ton' to the present day, author Julia Quinn says.

6 mins

Setting boundaries

A giant in the philosophy of gender seems unwilling to engage with alternative points of view or the reality of biological sex.

4 mins

Affair of the heart

Miranda July's second novel, a wild ride through an unconventional relationship, is not for the faint-hearted.

2 mins

A continent of no laws

A Kiwi investigative journalist has spent 21 years trying to get to the bottom of what many believe is the suspicious death of an Australian scientist in Antarctica.

6 mins

I'm Jo Peck again

Four weeks after her 60th birthday, Jo Peck's husband of 25 years told her he was seeing someone else. In a new book, she details how shock and disbelief made way for happiness and contentment.

8 mins

A mayor for everyone

The Far North's first Māori mayor is one of an emerging political generation bringing equity to the forefront. But a government reversal on Māori wards looms as a stumbling block.

10+ mins

We need to talk about dying

Whether by choice or weight of numbers, more of us will die at home in future. And with pressure to ease assisted dying restrictions, the gaps in community-based care need fixing - before time runs out.

10+ mins

Taking the state out of broadcasting

The news media has been the focus of attention recently.

2 mins

Shock and awe at Eurovision

Every May, when the Northern Hemisphere ticks off the Eurovision Song Contest from its calendar, the meaning of the word \"shocking\" takes a further devaluation. In more than 30 different languages.

2 mins

On the brink, yet again

As the story is told in part five of Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War, Netflix's epic nine-part history of the Cold War and its weapons, the world was on edge in September 1983.

2 mins

Felds of dreams

Last month, Berlin city councillors sent letters to 20,000 residents inviting them to discuss what happens next to one of the city's best-known parks.

2 mins

Schools for thought

The government believes our educational decline will be reversed by returning to policies of six years ago. Will it work?

4 mins

Roman scandals

Sarah Watt reviews two major titles at this year's Italian Film Festival.

3 mins

Rising tide

Twenty years on from the foreshore and seabed hikoi, the issues behind it have not subsided.

3 mins

The balance of Powers

The Naked and Famous star is unashamedly indulgent in his new solo album.

3 mins

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