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What is clear is that the message that consumerism is killing the planet - or at least our souls - continues to go unheard. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Consumerism is killing the planet

16 Jun, 2019 10:55am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: What is the ultimate limit of human endurance?

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Naivety deserves a chance

9 Jun, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Move over pessimism and cynicism.

Businesses are competitive rather than co-operative. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The truth about workplace bullying

2 Jun, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Workplace bullying is a misuse of power.

Does your lexicon use the latest lingo? Photo / Herald Graphic

LIFESTYLE

ROFL, selfie, woke - where do words come from?

26 May, 2019 5:00am
9 minutes to read

The Oxford English Dictionary is about to release its latest online update.

Be cautious about trying to form alliances. Photo / Supplied

ENTERTAINMENT

Paul Little: What the Game of Thrones ending taught us

25 May, 2019 7:00pm
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: People who would struggle to paint a toenail have pulled apart the art direction.

Looking out over Foulden Maar, near Middlemarch. Photo / ODT

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Turning our taonga into pet food

19 May, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: The scandal over Foulden Maar has reached critical mass.

Deforestation has not helped our planet. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Alarming climate change research

12 May, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Most of us will accept that we've been profligate with our planet.

The philosophy and success of AliExpress highlights a basic human paradox. Photo / 123RF

BUSINESS

So good it's bad - The secrets of AliExpress

5 May, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Chinese-based site proffers knicknacks to a global base of gullible consumers.

Notre Dame cathedral in Paris last week. Photo / AP

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: We obliterate our own heritage

21 Apr, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: No one has ever been required to replace a building they have destroyed.

LIFESTYLE

Looking for a new diet? Here's what Jesus ate

21 Apr, 2019 5:00am
10 minutes to read

Do we need to look for new diets when we can look at what our forebears consumed?

It’s like Alice in Wonderland ... Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The world has turned upside down

14 Apr, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: It's like Alice in Wonderland...

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: RSA calls time on support for Muslim community

7 Apr, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: The 50 people shot and killed on March 15 are certainly Kiwis who fell in war.

US President Donald Trump has been completed vindicated, or so you'd think. Photo / AP

WORLD

Paul Little: Spare a thought for Donald Trump

31 Mar, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: We all know how much faith we can put in what the US President says.

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Let world see good in action

24 Mar, 2019 5:00am
7 minutes to read

COMMENT: The grief since 50 people were killed has been empowering.

Who knew dishes could spark such offence? Photo / 123RF

TECHNOLOGY

Paul Little: Whining aside, the internet rules

17 Mar, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Do not listen to nostalgist Luddites who tell you we were better off without it.

The more extreme your beliefs are, the more insecure you will be about them. Photo / 123RF

LIFESTYLE

Paul Little: Meaty issues for vegans

10 Mar, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: People who hold extreme views tend to be a bit judgy.

It's like Les Miserables in reverse. Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: It's like Les Miserables in reverse

3 Mar, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Finally, the wealthy are rising up against their proletarian oppressors.

Google isn't fond of paying tax. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Why would Google change now?

24 Feb, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

It has been proposed Facebook and Google should pay tax on the money they earn from NZ.

Judge Lisa Tremewan speaks to a woman appearing before the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Court at the Waitakere District Court in West Auckland.

NEW ZEALAND

Helping addicts help themselves

17 Feb, 2019 6:00am
12 minutes to read

Inside an Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court.

BUSINESS

Paul Little: NZ Post - a post-modern postal service

10 Feb, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Comment: NZ Post sent a letter asking people to throw it away.

Visitors to Auschwitz Birkenau, former Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Comment: NZ Holocaust denial is out there

3 Feb, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Comment: The 20th century was hardly short of landmark historical events.

Australia’s race relations record is unconscionable. Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Is 'special relationship' with Australia worth it?

27 Jan, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT:Is special relationship with Australia worth it given their race-relations record?

Are Lime scooters and the perceived risks of riding them really worth all the fuss? Photo / Michael Craig

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Honestly, I don't give a scoot

20 Jan, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Hopefully Lime scooters will be the biggest thing to complain about in 2019.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex on stage. People are using social media to fake it until they make it. Photo / Getty Images

LIFESTYLE

PR your life like Meghan: Fake it 'til you make it

13 Jan, 2019 5:00am
15 minutes to read

Could individuals benefit from applying the principles of PR to their own lives?

Valkommen to New Zealand, Ikea. Photo / Getty Images

BUSINESS

Paul Little: I furnished a whole house with Ikea

13 Jan, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: There's a goodly portion of cultural cringe in all this.

Why do we do it to ourselves? Photo / George Novak

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Would aliens sit in traffic jams?

6 Jan, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: We are humans and we would rather be stubborn than sensible.

Artificial intelligence may spell the end of our race. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Happy new year ... but for how long?

30 Dec, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: The number one threat to humanity's continued existence is human beings.

Minister of Education Chris Hipkins. He said no. Photo / Mark Mitchell

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The game of the name

23 Dec, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Education Minister has declined a request from Victoria University of Wellington.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was emotional when speaking about murdered British tourist Grace Millane during her weekly post-Cabinet press conference last week.

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Grace Millane case highlights a terrible double standard

16 Dec, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Grace Millane deserves every tribute. But so did those other victims.

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: What Santa wants for Christmas

9 Dec, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Paul Little muses over what Santa wants.

It's easy to dislike feet. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The right to bare feet in public

2 Dec, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Bare feet are a litmus test for how we feel about ourselves and our society.

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: System failed serial drink-driver

25 Nov, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Gavin Hawthorn's case exemplifies a lot of what is wrong with our justice system.

Are psychometric tests a useful tool, or as enlightening asfortune cookies? Photo / 123RF

BUSINESS

Testing times: Is it possible to measure someone's personality?

18 Nov, 2018 5:00am
10 minutes to read

The business of psychometric testing is big business.

Armistice Day commemorations brought home the fact that ceremonies were all that were available to many bereaved families from World War I. Photo / George Novak

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: We can't put a price on human life

18 Nov, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Public spending is not always evidence of what we really value.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, greet Māori elders while attending a traditional welcome ceremony on the lawns of Government House. Photo / WireImage

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The empire crawls back

11 Nov, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: English traditions are still strong in this country.

KiwiBuild homeowners Derryn Jayne and Fletcher Ross outside their Papakura home with Housing Minister Phil Twyford and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Greg Bowker

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Give Kiwibuild couple a break

4 Nov, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Government's need for propaganda points only matched by Opposition's bad taste.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Photo / AP

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: What to do about Saudi Arabia?

28 Oct, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Where does this leave us and our $630 million a year trade with Saudi Arabia?

National Party caucus soon may not be employing Simon Bridges. Photo / Doug Sherring

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: More proof politicians not fit to run a country

21 Oct, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: The actions of Jami-Lee Ross and Simon Bridges have been deplorable.

The cost of keeping the Department of Corrections up and running rose from $514 million a year in 2005 to $1.3 billion a year in 2017. Photo / Michael Craig

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The real cost of prison reform

14 Oct, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: A High Court judge's 30-year-old report could hold key to reforming NZ's prisons.

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: An open letter to migrants

7 Oct, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: The truth about living in NZ.

Hospitals, including that at Rotorua, are run down, understaffed and inadequate. Photo / Ben Fraser

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Our health system shames us all

30 Sep, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Hospitals are run down, understaffed and inadequate.

16% of hearing loss is caused by excessive noise. Photo / 123RF

LIFESTYLE

Big Read: How noise pollution is killing us

23 Sep, 2018 12:00pm
10 minutes to read

The level of noise around us is a ticking health time bomb.

Stephen Hawking's cyclical theory can be put to use in everyday life. Photo / AP

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: A theory of life, the universe and everything

23 Sep, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: The idea of life as a cycle has been brought home to Paul Little recently.

Hobson’s Pledge Trust is led by Don Brash.Photo / Joel Ford

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Brash and co happy if Māori stay living in past

16 Sep, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: The Hobson's Pledge Trust newsletter is a time machine, writes Paul Little.

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: In the Can't Win Club

9 Sep, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Trump is a hypocrite — he just wasn't about John McCain.

In La Boheme, Nicholas Lester plays Marcello whose real-life model was the artist Francois Germain Leopold Tabar.

ENTERTAINMENT

Songs for the broken-hearted

8 Sep, 2018 5:00am
6 minutes to read

Writers write what they know, Paul Little finds that's true for the opera La Boheme

Is Steve Hansen having a laugh at our expense? Photo / Brett Phibbs

SPORT

Paul Little: Why All Blacks don't need tax-payer handout

2 Sep, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: If you really love the All Blacks, please don't give them any more money.

Julie Anne Genter and her bike. Photo / Marty Melville

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The bicycle bell heard around the world

26 Aug, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: "On your bike" will never sound quite the same again.

Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux are interviewed by Paddy Gower in the Newshub Studios. Photo / Caolan Robertson

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: The gift that keeps on grifting

19 Aug, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: To call Southern and Molyneux alt-right is to sugar coat their views.

While discarded plastic clogs some waterways, Paul Little writes, the use of some plastics could actually be good for the environment. Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Why plastic can actually be good for environment

12 Aug, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: It's time to get serious on solutions which will help the environment.

Clearly, if there's one thing we can say for sure about traditions, it's that they are changing all the time.

BUSINESS

The modern NZ workplace: Is this the end of after-work drinks?

5 Aug, 2018 1:00pm
10 minutes to read

There are few events more excruciating than a farewell for someone made redundant.

If God created man on the sixth day and rested on the seventh, what did he get up to on the eighth? Photo / 123RF

Paul Little: An epidemic of superstition

5 Aug, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: There are many things in life that no one can explain – at the moment.

A fire on one end and a fool on the other. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Smoking isn't just bad for your health

29 Jul, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Smoking comes obscured by a stinky cloud of ironies.

The leader of the United States of America. And Donald Trump. Photo / AP

WORLD

Paul Little: Donald Trump is Putin America first

22 Jul, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: American people can relate to Trump misspeaking – especially those who misvoted.

The NZSO is preparing to show there's more to its repertoire than Brahms and Beethoven.

ENTERTAINMENT

Orchestras get into the groove

21 Jul, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

'Serious' orchestras are often connected with the screen. Paul Little finds out why.

The Thai caving rescue mission was incredible - but let's not forget previous rescue missions, Paul Little writes. Photo: Royal Thai Navy via AP

WORLD

Paul Little: Heroic acts aren't a competition

15 Jul, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Why does it have to made into a competition?

Despite the great food to be found within, I'm of the opinion that anything to do with SkyCity represents a net loss to the community. Photo / Greg Bowker

LIFESTYLE

Paul Little: Made to pay for dinner in advance at SkyCity

8 Jul, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: It wasn't a meal apparently, it was an event.

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Put our national anthem out of its misery

1 Jul, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: American singer Crystal Collins might have done us a favour by wringing its neck.

Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds in A Quiet Place. Photo / Supplied

ENTERTAINMENT

Oh the horror ... Why we love freaky films

30 Jun, 2018 5:00am
6 minutes to read

What's the appeal of being frightened out of your wits.

David Rankin has taken exception at “appropriation of cultural practices”. Photo / Dean Purcell

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Is it cultural appropriation or sharing?

24 Jun, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Having baby is hard enough without people getting into public rows over placenta.

All Aucklanders will have to hand over $67 for food-scrap refuse, no matter how much or how little waste they produce. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: A complete waste of... well, everything

17 Jun, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: What a load of rubbish.

Why do we keep following social media such as Facebook? Photo / 123RF

LIFESTYLE

Why you need a break from social media

17 Jun, 2018 5:00am
10 minutes to read

The jury is out on whether devotion to social media can tip over into addiction.