Greg Dixon’s Another Kind of Politics: Foul-mouthed Luxon to publish guide to swearing

Greg Dixon runs a satirical eye over the week in local and international politics.

Rating NZ’s finance ministers from best to worst

How well served have we been by those who hold the country’s purse strings?

Cartoon of the week: Chris Slane

Chris Slane shares his perspective on current events.

Danyl McLauchlan: The politics of the second Covid inquiry

The most profound political event in a generation is not beyond politics.

Duncan Garner: Could Christopher Luxon be a one-term PM?

PM's corporate communication style and less-than-clear promises are muddying the waters.

Jane Clifton: AI confuses O’Tooles, with funny but ominous consequences

The lives of Fintan O’Toole and Peter O’Toole clash as AI fails to tell them apart.

Law & Society: Is it time to rethink judicial immunity?

Recent events here and in the US bring the question of judicial immunity to the fore.

Free rent, free bike – but would you move to East Germany?

Germany pitches for more people in its east, but far-right politics stymies its appeal.

Listener weekly quiz: July 23

Test your general knowledge with the Listener’s weekly quiz.

At 15, Sammie Maxwell got treatment for anorexia. Now she’s on top of the mountain bike world

Mountain biker Sammie Maxwell on her fight to ride.

Invisible Intelligence: How a ‘difficult kid’ told he was thick became a master educator

Professor Welby Ings says kids like himself, classed as thick, might not be failing.

Is this the worst thing you can say to someone who’s just been made redundant?

You think you're being positive, but it can be detrimental to those who've just lost jobs.

Spotlight on 100-year-old TB vaccine for its potential to curb other ills

The surprising benefits of the TB vaccine.

The ingredients in flavoured milks that might surprise you

Flavoured milk is a supermarket chameleon, so it pays to know more about what's in it.

Sjögren’s syndrome stripped my health, career and dreams – but not my hope

The hidden toll of living with one of the world's most common autoimmune conditions.

If corn syrup can be unhealthy, shouldn’t we avoid eating corn?

Corn products are not created equal, so it pays to know what that means for your body.

Celebrated pastry chef Christopher Thé grabs what’s close to home

Three recipes from Christopher Thé sprinkled with a modern Aussie twist.

Weekend wine guide: The European labels worth discovering

International wines are easily indulged, but back in the 1980s it was a different story.

The Good Life: Presents of greatness

A sculpture of a fondly remembered pet makes for a great birthday present.

Why airports make us feel so weird

Airports are strange places that elicit equally unusual human behaviour.

Renaissance men: Fascinating series looks at rivalry of original superstars of Italian art

Docudrama examines political history of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

NZTrio tour strikes a family chord

Callum Hall joins sister Amalia for an eight-date NZTrio tour.

Indian Ink’s Jacob Rajan on food, family & theatre

Jacob Rajan and Indian Ink theatre company have helped shape New Zealand culture.

Outsider art: Steve Braunias on the global interest in NZ’s ‘Picasso’

Untrained and unable to speak, Susan Te Kahurangi King is one of our greatest artists.

Unusual suspects: The top talent on Lucy Lawless murder mystery season five

The new season of My Life is Murder has guest stars from near and abroad.

Sex & sequins: Michael Hurst’s Chicago kicks off a NZ tour

How new Chicago production is taking All that Jazz on the road for its 50th anniversary.

The Circling Sun’s seductive sophomore album leads wave of local jazz releases

Auckland and Wellington ensembles deliver deft Latin translations.

Listener’s Songs of the Week: New tracks by Blood Orange featuring Lorde, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, and more

Listen to the best of this week's new releases - selected by the Listener team.

Top 10 bestselling New Zealand books: July 26

Jacinda Ardern proves unbeatable as a new book rockets into the top 10.

Three new crime books to check out this weekend

New stories from seasoned writers deliver taut plot turns.

Book of the day: 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America

Insider interviews power account of political machinations behind 2024’s US election.

Book of the day: My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud

A kind-of sequel to Hideous Kinky where the author again fictionalises her life.

She was on the spectrum, he was a 'fat chubby nerd': Madison Ashton on Polkinghorne

After the Polkinghorne trial, Steve Braunias sat down to lunch with Madison Ashton.

Murder, he wrote: Steven Braunias on covering NZ’s most high-profile crime cases

"I've spent quite a lot of my professional life these past 20 years at murder trials."

The mystery of Minnie Dean: Was the only woman executed by law in New Zealand innocent?

Notorious "baby farmer” Minnie Dean hanged for infanticide but did the judge get it right?

Justice with heart: Steve Braunias spends a day at NZ’s court for the mentally ill

Our one specialist court assessing whether a defendant is mentally fit to enter plea.

Free rent, free bike – but would you move to East Germany?

Germany pitches for more people in its east, but far-right politics stymies its appeal.

On thin ice: The Antarctic Treaty is in danger of collapsing

Annual meetings are still held, but failure to agree on anything hinders progress.

Charlotte Grimshaw: An empathy deficit is wreaking havoc around the world

In urgent and particular ways, empathy is the issue of our times.

How Britain’s mental health burden is threatening its future

Britain, it seems, is bad for your mental health - and that’s bad for the economy.

This Titirangi home was transformed into a functional family home

A mid-century Auckland home is reconfigured to make it more functional for a young family

This contemporary Redcliffs home maximises its view of the estuary

A home on a Christchurch estuary provides its owner with an outlook that’s always changing

10 things we learnt from listener.co.nz stories this week

Peacekeeping, population and why cannabis could cure insomnia.

10 things we learnt from listener.co.nz stories this week

The former PM who helped solve a violent crime to 11 words to say before you die.