Latest from Toby Manhire

Toby Manhire: Population growth? Open the doors and let 'em in

More people means more bums on seats - enriching and expanding the arts, sport and media, writes Toby Manhire. "Who honestly can say they feel crowded anywhere in NZ?"

TPP secrecy invites suspicion about US

The implication that the US is using the TPP as a bayonet to thrust at the Chinese is far from the only thing that should bother us, writes Toby Manhire.

Toby Manhire: MPs out of sync with this newfangled e-thingy

As the push for e-government gathers pace, a basic literacy in the "e" part is a reasonable demand, writes Toby Manhire.

Toby Manhire: John and Dave: text pals with so much in common

It wouldn't surprise me to learn John Key was up into the small hours yesterday to watch his old friend David Cameron, writes Toby Manhire.

Toby Manhire: Anti-plain packaging ads are driving me BATs

It's as if the creative team's brains exploded on to a whiteboard and they gave it to a junior animator and said: Make this, wites Toby Manhire.

Toby Manhire: Perma-relaxed PM starting to come unstuck

While Labour is pecking away in a number of policy areas, they lack much in the way of an argument to explain what is wrong with the incumbents, writes Toby Mahire

Toby Manhire: Sometimes it is best to leave things unread

Too busy to read police reports? Toby Manhire says unlike those with too much time on their hands, buggerising around on Facebook, John Key and his people are busy, busy, busy.

Nats starting to look 'plain nasty'

Toby Manhire says slash a parent's benefit and you hurt their children - children who, chances are, already have it extremely tough. To argue otherwise is fantasyland.