Author: Tim Selwyn

The ‘Roastbusters’ case was mentioned on TV some time back. I was at someone else’s place and the lady there…

Sometimes I want to be Steve McQueen circa 1968. I’ve got a woollen, tweed type jacket that he might have…

Last week in between haunting the parliaments of Scandinavia like the hybrid Count Dracula and Count Richelieu that he is,…

The letter to The Platform from the Broadcasting Standards Authority resembles an April Fools gag. The RNZ newsreader was barely…

I started watching the Gaza cease-fire live coverage on Al Jazeera at 6pm NZDT yesterday (13/10/2025). The events kept rolling…

Yesterday’s twitter flame war between New Zealand’s Foreign Minister and The Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury was a most amusing,…

Once the official death toll in Gaza got to 50,000 I stopped following the number. The real toll will be…

“Curry-muncher!” he retorted apropos of nothing that I could understand. Then he said it again in the plural, “curry-munchers.” He…

He was always going to be gunned down by police – we all knew how it would end. A Lee Harvey…

What an emphatic victory – and vindication – for Te Pati Maori and what a humiliating thrashing for Labour. The…