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Jane Clifton: Move over Fieldays, Ireland’s National Ploughing leaves you in the mud

New Zealand A&P show habitués would feel at home, but for a couple of local peculiarities.

Guyon Espiner: Our government should focus on productivity not presenteeism

Govt return-to-office call is a hypocritical misstep in the changed modern world of work.

Charlotte Grimshaw: Isn’t it worth sharing a bit more to love the environment beyond your own gate?

Clean streets, happy workers and functional families engender order and confidence.

I’m a nurse doing everything I can to live with Long Covid

Life with Long Covid looks misleadingly normal, which is common with invisible illnesses.

In plain sight: What allowed Harrods head Mohamed Al Fayed’s vile abuse?

That Fayed got away with it is a terrible indictment of UK criminal justice system.

Duncan Garner: Why I owe Paddy Gower an apology

I wasn’t mature or responsible enough to say, “Paddy, stop, this will ruin you.”

Jane Clifton: The case for banning phone-junkie diners from restaurants

Should you be able to text and eat or does it suck the energy from a room?

Shane Jones’ judge baiting won’t help discussions about where law is headed

Informed talk about direction some courts are taking would be more beneficial.

Jane Clifton: Why your fridge could soon look like a Regency era diorama

Now social media is conning people into decorating their fridges.

Applying intelligence to rules around AI

Why the government should take a light-handed and adaptive regulatory approach to AI.

The mantra of community pantry movement: Take what you need, give what you can

Community pantries need support now more than ever.

Nazism rears its head as Germany reaches a turning point

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, does not bode well.

The horrendous rigmarole required to buy tickets for Oasis comeback

Can you legislate to force a business to have an adequate IT system?

PM’s speech to the local government: Mana-diminishing or what ratepayers wanted to hear?

Response to PM's speech to local councils depends on where you stand.

Duncan Garner: Why is our fastest growing regional city so … dead?

"Tauranga is our fifth largest city. Surely its CBD shouldn’t be so, well, depressed?"

Jane Clifton: Young shoppers’ love for automation may fuel shoplifting increase

Rising shoplifting rates challenge ideas about efficiency of automated checkouts.