Karl du Fresne

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...

The cover story in the latest issue of North & South , headlined A matter of opinion , takes up an issue raised by me twice in recent we...

The news and comment website Newsroom published an article yesterday in which Philip Matthews reviewed a new and slightly revised edition of...

Once again, state-owned TVNZ has obligingly provided a platform from which its best-known (and no doubt highest-paid) journalist, John Campb...