How embracing the hard tasks can actually be good for you

Polo cross, underwater hockey, foot volley ... who doesn't love a good hybrid sport? Well in just a few days time, the best speedgolfers in the world - yes you hear that right, speed golf - are going to be teeing off on our shores for The World Speedgolf Championship. Kiwi Amy Linton is the back-to…

Don't try to be cleaver . . . two ticks blue. That has become the defining message of Nationals campaign. as it fights to return to government, while also trying to stop ACT and New Zealand First supporters using MMP's overhang to their advantage. That's despite an overhang on the right almost cert…

That long-running battle between Wellington and Christchurch for the title of our second-largest city . . . Well, that looks pretty much settled now, with the Garden City pulling ahead, while Wellington's population has fallen back to 2017 levels. And it's not just Christchurch that's growing . . .…

John Dolan has co-edited a notoriously provocative newspaper in Moscow, taught in Iraqi Kurdistan and has been fired from jobs in both Saudi Arabia and East Timor because of things he'd written. Along the way, he created Gary Brecher, the pseudonym behind The War Nerd, which grew from a newspaper c…