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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.

In spite of the odds, Grease proved to be the one that we wanted. Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta as Sandy and Danny. Photo / Getty Images

ENTERTAINMENT

How the makers of Grease got just about everything wrong

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

Grease has just turned 40. Paul Little looks back, in humour.

Critics of Auckland Council lament safety hazards and poorly maintained, low-quality equipment in the poorer parts of the city. Photo / Stephen Parker

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Not so great expectations

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

COMMENT: If the council treated people fairly, how would poor people know their place?

How can we stop police chases ending in tragedy? Photo / George Novak

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: New approach needed to catch fleeing drivers

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

COMMENT: How about arming cops with drones to chase runaway drivers?

University of Otago student paper 'Critic Te Arohi' Menstruation Issue (image pixelated). Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: No place for censorship, period

27 May, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Readership of Otago University's student newspaper skyrocketed this week.

Children exist to be themselves, not who we want them to be.

LIFESTYLE

Are your kids a disappointment?

20 May, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

Children exist to be themselves, not who we want them to be.

A pair of bouncers outside The Little Bistro in Akaroa on the alert for waitress-impeding children.

NEW ZEALAND

If we're banning people from restaurants, why stop at kids?

13 May, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Tolerating children is a sign of a decent society and part of being a mature adult.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend an event to mark the second year of youth-led peace-building initiative Amazing the Space at the Eikon Exhibition Centre. Photo / AP

LIFESTYLE

How to have fun on Meghan and Harry's big day

12 May, 2018 10:45am
6 minutes to read

Paul Little tells us how to ensure you have a right royal time next Saturday .

ENTERTAINMENT

Hunt for the Wilbur person

5 May, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

Paul Little discovers how much of the best-selling novelist is actually in his books.

A man's sign in support for fact based science at the March for Science in Portland. Photo / Getty Image

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Where would we be without science?

22 Apr, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

COMMENT: Science is based on research and facts and used to describe the world.

Dancing with the Stars has certainly has its ups...and downs. Photo / Supplied

ENTERTAINMENT

What it's really like to go Dancing with the Stars

21 Apr, 2018 1:00pm
5 minutes to read

We talk to DWTS cast members to find out what it's really like on the reality show

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Free speech is as important AF

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

COMMENT: What the f***? There is a chill creeping over the notion of free speech.

Older men often don't take advantage of the perspective their years give them. Photo / 123RF

LIFESTYLE

Why old men are bitter and bossy

8 Apr, 2018 12:14pm
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: I'm at an age where, 50 years ago, people thought it's reasonable to start dying.

Over the years <i>Scooby Doo</i> has inspired numerous conspiracy and other theories suggesting a dark side behind the seemingly innocent cartoon.

ENTERTAINMENT

Why Scooby Doo is still famous

7 Apr, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

Paul Little delves into the history of the famous and most scatterbrained television dog.

Julie Anne Genter. Photo / Mark Mitchell

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Old white men in diaper distress

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

COMMNET: How Julie Anne Genter frightened the old white men by asking for equality.

Just going in, being present, allowing them to talk, having the sensitivity of knowing when to shut up can help - Monsignor Bernard Kiely. Photo / Getty Images

LIFESTYLE

What to say when someone gets bad news

31 Mar, 2018 9:00am
9 minutes to read

Sincerity, listening and not trying to fix things are all good starts.

American actor Gary Lockwood on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey, written and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Photo / Getty Images

ENTERTAINMENT

50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey

31 Mar, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

Paul Little looks at what made the prescient film so weird and so wonderful.

Was Judith Collins being disingenuous when she said Labour had nine years in Opposition to come up with solutions to the housing crisis?

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Bigger issues than blasphemy

25 Mar, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Isn't there something more important to deal with?

Millbrook Resort - another luxury for the wealthy. Photo / Brett Phibbs

BUSINESS

Paul Little: New laws won't stop billionaires

18 Mar, 2018 8:33am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: The Govt is making it harder for foreigners to buy NZ homes. How sad for them.

Censuses in biblical times may have been better run than ours. Photo / Michael Cunningham

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Hard to make sense of the Census

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

COMMENT: I'm not sure how many of results from the Census will be accurate or useful.

New National Party leader Simon Bridges in his office at Parliament, Wellington. Photo / Mark Mitchell

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: It's simple, Simon, speak out

4 Mar, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: It's simple for Simon, he just needs to bug the Government for a couple of years.

If loving grammar is showing your age, so be it. Photo / 123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: I spy with my little 'I' a grammatical error

25 Feb, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Minding your ps and qs.

Amy Adams, Bill English and Chris Bishop. Photo / Mark Mitchell

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Will Bill English finally get that tattoo?

18 Feb, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Why do so many politicians take so long to get the message they are a failure?

Hilary Barry and Jeremy Wells present the new series of Seven Sharp on TV ONE. Photo / TVNZ

ENTERTAINMENT

Paul Little: New faces fascinate the nation

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

COMMENT: Seven Sharp – and The Project – are best thought of as light entertainment shows.

The norms by which we organise our relationships are shifting. Photo / 123RF

LIFESTYLE

Is this the secret to finding true love?

11 Feb, 2018 5:00am
10 minutes to read

Modern love is no longer conventional — and that is a good thing, right?

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett in the movie Titanic.

ENTERTAINMENT

Unromantic's guide for Valentine's Day

10 Feb, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

The unromantic person's guide to poems, people, music and movies.

We need more beautiful things in our lives. Critics should lighten up. Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: 'Cheesy' disco ball a bit of fun

4 Feb, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Critics of Rocket Lab's Humanity Star need to lighten up.

The Auckland Art Gallery receives about 25 per cent less funding from the council than it did five years ago. Photo / File

NEW ZEALAND

Paul Little: Why does Motat beat gallery?

28 Jan, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: Is this the beginning of the art-pocalypse?

Queenstown shopkeepers are standing up to cellphone slaves. Picture /123RF

NEW ZEALAND

Little: Put down that cellphone

21 Jan, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

Some shoppers can't be bothered getting off their cellphones.

Sudden deaths, when people have had no time to prepare, are the worst.

LIFESTYLE

How to prepare for your death

21 Jan, 2018 5:00am
10 minutes to read

You're dead. What's the worst that could happen?

Oprah Winfrey at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards. photo / Paul Drinkwater

ENTERTAINMENT

Little: President O . . . for real?

14 Jan, 2018 5:01am
4 minutes to read

As if the Trump fiasco had taught no one about danger of mistaking glamour for authority.