Jools Topp, the Topp Twins and the Aotearoa We Lost
Jools Topp was joy, protest, country music, yodelling and defiance wrapped into one. We mourn her because she represented an Aotearoa we are losing.
New Zealand Culture
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The Liberal Agenda – Improv, music and comedy this week at Basement
It’s our second week of celebrating Pride at Basement! Laenye Productions are back with a return season of La Catrina….
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RIP Martin Phillipps 1963-2024 – He was a Pink Frosted Heavenly Pop Hit
Founder of Dunedin band The Chills, Martin Phillipps, dies unexpectedly Martin Phillipps, the founder and frontman of seminal Dunedin band…
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The Liberal Agenda: PolyFest 2024 and the reverberations of Don Brash’s 2018 comments
I have zero Māori blood in me or my family, but I always believed that my daughter had a birthright…
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50 years of Rocky Horror, Gore Vidal and Deadpool : Lunch with the brilliantly creative Richard O’Brien
Rocky Horror Show creator to premier new show in Tauranga Half a century ago The Rocky Horror Show was first…
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If only we could focus on our suicide rate, climate crisis and corrosive domestic violence and poverty the way we do about All Black selections
Some people claim sportspeople are role models. Perhaps you need to get out more.
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The media who spend so much time denigrating men now think men might need help with suicide
I heard Mike King once say that the most important thing he tells young men around NZ about suicide is that they are loved. It’s a message that is being ignored everywhere else because we have become a broken nation of unloved fatherless sons.
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Burning Michael Jackson’s music – this is who we are now
In the post #MeToo cultural landscape where accusation is the new evidential threshold & outrage olympics the virtue signalling of choice, book burning presentism is the new cultural revolution.
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On being a Proud Pakeha
Marae TV asked my thoughts on being Pakeha, here they were…
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Thank Christ Mike Hosking & Kate Hawkesby have found a new mansion to call home
Brothers and sisters, we can all rest easy today, because the two broadcasters who epitomise white privilege more than a hand-job in a Maserati while listening to Kenny G , Mike Hosking and Kate Hawkesby, have managed to find a new mansion to call home…