Why Are People Finding It Harder to Date in New Zealand?
Dating in New Zealand can feel harder than ever: small dating pools, geographic distance, Kiwi reserve, app fatigue, OE disruption, and rising loneliness. Here’s what’s driving it.

Dating in New Zealand can feel harder than ever: small dating pools, geographic distance, Kiwi reserve, app fatigue, OE disruption, and rising loneliness. Here’s what’s driving it.

Calls for New Zealand to surrender its sovereignty to Australia are no longer confined to fringe commentary. They are now…
Two countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
Four years ago, just before Trump was inaurgurated, I wrote the post I have copied below. At the time I…
History is always watching.
Lock Down: Day 4 – A photo essay with observations
March 28: First day of the first weekend in Lock Down. It feels like it’s been weeks since only Level 3 was declared last Tuesday, only four days ago.
Day one of the Level 4 nationwide lock-down (or, DefCon 4 as I sometimes cheekily call it) started at 11.59PM on 25 March. For a moment, most of the nation held it’s collective breath. In that brief moment, as the countdown moved to one minute to midnight, everything changed.
Anyway, I will leave the technical writing to others, but I do want to talk a bit about winning. Competition is healthy until it becomes unhealthy. Whether it be a sporting game, an educational outcome or anything else, sometimes one person alone does not come put on top. What you do about that defines who you are as a person, a country or a sporting tournament.