2025: More shock poll results, reshuffles & odd appointments, and meaningless actions.

It's a question no PM should be having to answer after just one year in the job.

Chris Slane shares his perspective on current events.

Right now, all I see are Kiwis buying one-way airline tickets; I’m calling it an F U fee.

The figure keeping Ireland’s most famous modern-day vigil is unlikely to warm the cockles.

A deadly road, a political battleground: Albanese takes fight to opposition heartland.

NZ scientists are part of a research project into how birds might suffer.

With Big Tech blocking a rescue plan for NZ media, who will hold the powerful to account?

Test your general knowledge with the Listener's weekly quiz.

Grill types and cooking method also make all the difference to healthy barbecuing.

Falling vaccination rates leave NZ vulnerable to diseases we’ve grown complacent about.

The latest research on how nature reduces stress and boosts brain power.

Sydney food blogger Nagi Maehashi shares recipes from RecipeTin Eats: Tonight.

A WWII tragedy leads to a connection with one of the world's most famed wine regions.

After 20 years, the Listener’s bad boy has returned.

Richard Betts continues his preview of what we can expect this year.

Before Vivienne Westwood became synonymous with punk-era fashion, she designed jewellery.

Richard Betts runs the ruler over the 2025 orchestral year.

Timothée Chalamet's performance helps deliver an exceptional Bob Dylan biopic.

Lights, cells, action! In these two films, redemption takes centre stage.

Flow, a small-budget animated Latvian film, pipped Hollywood hits for awards attention.

The NZ books we've been buying this week.

A welcome addition that goes back to the start of Jeff VanderMeer's dystopian trilogy.

Highly enjoyable debut novel set in the manipulative worlds of publishing and Hollywood.

The most notorious crime NZ had seen happened for reasons older than dirt: lust & revenge.

Diane Gordon-Burns, shocked by a prison visit, asks how hard is it to be humane?

Across generations, messages about sexuality and safety change but one primal fear remains

A deadly road, a political battleground: Albanese takes fight to opposition heartland.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, what did Assad's gaze say about him?

What are we doing to prepare for the infectious diseases climate change will bring to NZ?

Peacekeeping, population and why cannabis could cure insomnia.

The former PM who helped solve a violent crime to 11 words to say before you die.