Karl du Fresne

On a recent Monday morning, my wife and I had breakfast at Bordeaux Bakery on Thorndon Quay, Wellington. I expressed surprise that the place...

  [An abridged version of this article was published in the September issue of North & South.] Y ou know you’re getting old when you can...

On the night of August 1 I was watching Sky Open’s coverage of the Olympic Games. The presenter, Laura McGoldrick, repeatedly referred to Ne...

What the hell took him so long? That’s the only question arising from Transport Minister Simeon Brown’s belated crackdown on traffic cones ....

I’ve asked this question before, but it’s time to ask it again: do TV journalists have any idea how precious and self-absorbed they look? ...

  By anyone’s standards, my friend and long-ago employer Ian F Grant leads a very busy life, especially for an 84-year-old. But the past wee...

(This post is a one-off. It does not signify a reactivation of my blog.) There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it o...