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Cancer rising: Investigating the deadly increase in cancers in younger people
As cancer in under-50s soar, researchers focus on environmental and lifestyle causes.
Cancer rising: How disengagement with the health system might hinder cancer detection
As cancer in under-50s soar, researchers focus on the causes.
How FOMO played a part in motivating Treaty Principles Bill submissions
Submitters who killed Act’s Treaty Principles Bill deployed tactics shoppers know well.
Music: Masters of reinvention Bon Iver fail to match their own ambitions
New releases from Bon Iver and The Waterboys.
Politics
Danyl McLauchlan: Retroactive legal immunity - the government’s gift to banks
Laws aren’t supposed to change after the fact—unless you're ANZ or ASB, apparently.
Greg Dixon’s Another Kind of Politics: God says JD Vance visit “last straw for Pope”
God is expected to talk to the late Pope Francis next week about sanctions on Vance.
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Opinion
Politics “incivility” problems: Smoke bombs, brawls and disruptive songs
Bad behaviour in the parliaments of Europe is still not enough to put off voters.
Jane Clifton: The politics of grass is a new turf war
The widening divide between lawn purists and those who want nature to take its course.
Charlotte Grimshaw: Extreme populism heads in one direction - and soon everyone is frightened
As he leads his country into ignominy, Donald Trump will tolerate no criticism.
New Zealand
How FOMO played a part in motivating Treaty Principles Bill submissions
Submitters who killed Act’s Treaty Principles Bill deployed tactics shoppers know well.
Duncan Garner: When did our teens stop working and whose fault is it?
Thousands of young Kiwis are drifting -- and not in a good direction.
The Bigger Picture: They also served
Some 550 Kiwi nurses served overseas in World War I.
Enterprise & Tech
Digital goods remain last bastion of free trade – but for how long?
Applying tariffs on digital services would be a logistical nightmare.
Inside the Kiwi business sending body parts overseas
"We’ve gone from face-painting little kids to selling stuff to the army in France."
Health
Cancer rising: How disengagement with the health system might hinder cancer detection
As cancer in under-50s soar, researchers focus on the causes.
Cancer rising: Investigating the deadly increase in cancers in younger people
As cancer in under-50s soar, researchers focus on environmental and lifestyle causes.
Is cutting back on ultra-processed foods the key to ageing well?
A little of what’s bad for you can be good.
Life
The Good Life: Meghan Markle and the inspiration for our authentic podcast
After listening to Meghan Markle, Greg Dixon decides Lush Places needs its own podcast.
Hola, España: A taste of Spain from food writer Jo Wilcox
NZ photographer Melanie Jenkins provides the stunning images for the recipe book.
Bumper weekend wine guide: The best pinot gris
Pinot gris has quickly become one of New Zealand's favourite wines.
Culture
History speaking: What the evolution of a modern language tells us about ourselves
New language evolution theories throw into shade rigid ideas of race and identity.
AC Grayling on his sortie onto the battlefield of woke: Social media has turned out to be an absolute sewer
Ahead of NZ visit, renowned philosopher and author AC Grayling on his latest 'woke' book.
Top honour for NZ conductor Reuben Brown
Queenstown's Whakatipu Music Festival welcomes classical musician on the rise.
Entertainment
Music: Masters of reinvention Bon Iver fail to match their own ambitions
New releases from Bon Iver and The Waterboys.
The World Choir Games becomes a television series
How Kiwi documentary maker tackled the international singing event.
Drop: A tech-savvy thriller with old-school whodunnit vibes
Suspenseful drama with a techno-fear twist maintains the intrigue.
Books
AC Grayling on his sortie onto the battlefield of woke: Social media has turned out to be an absolute sewer
Ahead of NZ visit, renowned philosopher and author AC Grayling on his latest 'woke' book.
Miramar surprise hideaway in imaginative retelling of Marie Curie
Book of the day: Wonderland by Tracy Farr.
Book of the day: My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
Allende follows-up on debut novel The House of the Spirits nearly four decades on.
Crime
Crash’n’Grab: Was this NZ’s most outrageous art heist?
This wasn’t just a whodunnit. It was a why-dunnit - and years later, the questions remain.
11 years on, Taranaki detective still haunted by father-son murder case
'The murders, the families involved, they almost become part of you.'
Russell Brown: Northland green fairy arrest exposes a flawed system
The arrest of a Northland ‘green fairy’ highlights NZ's onerous medical cannabis rules.
World
Politics “incivility” problems: Smoke bombs, brawls and disruptive songs
Bad behaviour in the parliaments of Europe is still not enough to put off voters.
Jane Clifton: The politics of grass is a new turf war
The widening divide between lawn purists and those who want nature to take its course.
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10 things we learnt from listener.co.nz stories this week
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The former PM who helped solve a violent crime to 11 words to say before you die.