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New Zealand Listener, 12 Oct 2026

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ArticleThink­ing about think­ing

From 2029, philo­sophy will be taught to school kids. What can we all learn from a dis­cip­line long con­sidered dry and aca­demic? Four dec­ades ago, when I was accep­ted to study philo­sophy at uni­versity, my friends laughed. “What’s the point of...

Think­ing about think­ing

ArticleDiary

Our ill-con­sidered trans­port plans exem­plify the worst aspects of a bad gov­ern­ment. It is some months since I con­cluded we have been liv­ing under the worst gov­ern­ment of my life­time. It took some time to get my head around the idea. I had,...

Diary

ArticleA fist­ful of dol­lars

From health and edu­ca­tion to baby bonuses and boy racers: con­clud­ing our two­part series look­ing at what the parties are offer­ing – from big and small to, er, noisy. Our ana­lysis of the good, the bad, the ugly and the unwork­able solu­tions...

A fist­ful of dol­lars

ArticleCheap & cheer­ful

Con­sum­ing less is prov­ing pop­u­lar as the frugal ways of our grand­par­ents swing back into fash­ion. And it goes bey­ond belt-tight­en­ing in a cost-ofliv­ing crisis. ‘Some people may see frugal­ity as not buy­ing any­thing ever; hav­ing a very...

Cheap & cheer­ful