Forget the increasingly bitter parochial arguments about amalgamation. It's now obvious the result is a foregone conclusion, writes Bruce Bisset.

Bruce Bisset: To tell Labour leader Andrew Little to "get some guts and join the right side", guts is what Prime Minister John Key and his followers seem, for the most part, to lack.

Author Bill Bryson said he disagreed that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively, writes Mark Story.