Frank Greenall
Columnist
Frank Greenall is a Whanganui-based writer.
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Your dystopian nightmare: How cellphones can send teens stir-crazy
The smartphone's more than just an enabler. It's now also an intensifier.
Best of 2019: Frank Greenall: An avalanche of issues
There have always been and will always be a gazillion issues happening at any one moment.
Frank Greenall: Gangs need pathways out
12 months out from the election National cranks up the hoary old spectre of the gangs.
Frank Greenall: Hooked on pantomime of NZ politics
Are our politicians in fantasy land? And will there be a fairytale ending to it all?
Comment: Can PM Ardern avoid a Lermontov style disaster?
The open waters of Cook Strait beckoned. What could possibly go wrong?
Frank Greenall: Bring out the local bodies
Commentator Frank Greenall's take on the local body elections.
Frank Greenall: One Cook, too many critics
Captain James Cook would probably be embarrassed by the attention we still accord him.
Frank Greenall: Budget puts wellbeing first
It's false language used to describe false economics, but most don't see any dichotomy.
Frank Greenall: Breaking up is hard to do
Winston Churchill, were he still alive, would be a rampant Brexit Remainer.
Frank Greenall: Cows got talent too
Could New Zealanders ever do the Wilde thing and lay off slaughtering animals?
Frank Greenall: Laver, a man of tennis note
Djokovic, Nadal and others play on in the shadow of the Australian superstar of the 1960s.
Bastia Bulletin: First the Blitz, now the Splitz
The receding tide of former imperial glory has long been slipping out, seemingly unnoticed
Frank Greenall: You just couldn't script it
Perhaps art visits us daily in the guise of reality TV with all its vacuous grotesquery.
Frank Greenall: Roulette wheel spinning as property investors use houses as casino chips
Inevitable crash will be painful but houses may be homes again, not investors casino chips
Frank Greenall: Nauru - where guano always happens
The nation's colourful yet sorry history is literally centred on seabird droppings.
Frank Greenall: Less tooth, more nail . . .
Jacinda, you've got a nice smile, But for the next couple of years I don't want to see it.