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Reform UK’s ex-Wales leader jailed for doing Russia’s bidding as EU MP

Somewhere in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin must surely be laughing.

Charlotte Grimshaw: The genius of true-crime writer Helen Garner and her take on Australia’s ‘mushroom murders’

Thanks to an account of Erin Patterson's murder trial, I am now fascinated by the case.

How Europe is fighting against the e-scooter foothpath invasion

Paris and Madrid bans, Slovakia invokes sidewalk speed limit, including pededstrians.

Once powerful and influential, the reputations of three prominent Australians are now in tatters

Across the 1980s & 90s, three entitled men had an outsized influence over Australia.

Russell Brown: The way Waiheke Islands works these days has a whiff of feudalism

Today’s Waiheke Island is a very different to the place it was in the 1980s.

Duncan Garner: Should Kiwis take Labour back? The issues that need to be sorted first

Are the Labour Party and Chris Hipkins doing enough to run the country again?

Jane Clifton: Ryanair Ireland accused of being beastly to the elderly

At least Ryanair has never tried to pass itself off as comfortable.

Jonathan Kronstadt: One in five US tenants spend 100% of income on rent

As in New Zealand, lack of affordable housing is a crisis in the US.