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Charlotte Grimshaw: We need to brace for the wild year ahead
2025 promises a wild ride: the climate, the politics, the geopolitical instability.
Ranking PMs, political wind backs, articles of faith and young guns
Best of Listener 2024: Politics - past & present
I received a kidney transplant 26 years ago - here’s what that gift means to me
Eric Trump recalls his own experience of receiving his aunt’s kidney 26 years ago.
The incredible medical advances keeping us well and healthy
Best of Listener 2024: Health & medicine
Politics
Ranking PMs, political wind backs, articles of faith and young guns
Best of Listener 2024: Politics - past & present
Danyl McLauchlan: The year in politics
There's only one winner of the coveted I’m Entitled to This Award Award.
Greg Dixon’s Another kind of politics: My political awards for 2024
Why Christopher Luxon, Nicola Willis and David Seymour are getting multiple awards.
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Opinion
Charlotte Grimshaw: We need to brace for the wild year ahead
2025 promises a wild ride: the climate, the politics, the geopolitical instability.
Jane Clifton: A short goodbye to listicles
The auction of crime writer Raymond Chandler's old listicle sparks some genuine surprise.
Duncan Garner: Frontline services now the target of this cost-cutting regime
Boken promises and broken books end messy year.
New Zealand
Listener’s top 2024 stories on tough financial decisions, work & retirement
Best of Listener 2024: Finance & work.
The Bigger Picture: Willing hands
For conservation volunteers, the work doesn't stop because it's summer.
How to make your New Year's money resolutions last beyond February
Many New Year’s resolutions fall by the wayside but your financial goals don’t have to.
Enterprise & Tech
2024 was a gap year, but expect some major tech advances in 2025
Peter Griffin on revolutionary tech set to be unveiled next year.
Health
I received a kidney transplant 26 years ago - here’s what that gift means to me
Eric Trump recalls his own experience of receiving his aunt’s kidney 26 years ago.
The incredible medical advances keeping us well and healthy
Best of Listener 2024: Health & medicine
10 questions about eating well answered
Jennifer Bowden dispels nutrition myths and shares tips and hint for good eating.
Life
The Good Life: Christmas Dos (and don’ts)
Michele Hewitson & Greg Dixon's Lush Places Christmas messages.
65 of the most intriguing people we wrote about this year
Best of the Listener 2024: The people you loved reading about most
What to cook for friends the weekend before Christmas
Taupō-based Olivia Moore’s fusion snacks and dinners are designed to inspire.
Culture
Will the real Jesus please stand up?
After 2000 years, there are as many questions around Jesus and who he really was as ever.
Tim Bray’s groundbreaking contribution to children’s theatre will be much missed
Tim Bray has inspired thousands of NZ children, including my own.
Whare cry: Historic meeting house comes home from the UK
After 132 years away, a whare with links to the Pink and White Terraces awaits its return.
Entertainment
Jesse Eisenberg speaks to Russell Baillie on his new Holocaust tourism dramedy
Jesse Eisenberg on how his own family history and travels in Poland inspired new film.
Kiwi-made series takes beloved Badjelly the Witch to the world
British comedian Miriam Margolyes plays Badjelly in Spike Milligan masterpiece.
Planning to catch up on some TV? The best shows from 2024
A guide to the best new, local and return TV shows of 2024.
Books
Will the real Jesus please stand up?
After 2000 years, there are as many questions around Jesus and who he really was as ever.
Former UK PM Boris Johnson: ‘My charm has catastrophically worn off with lots of people'
Michele Hewitson talks Brexit, books, parties & philandering with Boris Johnson.
Secrets of NZ environmental heroes shared in Forest & Bird book
NZ’s conservation history revealed as Forest & Bird marks 100 years.
Crime
Sex, sly grogging and murder: When Chicago came to Auckland
The most notorious crime NZ had seen happened for reasons older than dirt: lust & revenge.
Why I’m campaigning for change in our prisons
Diane Gordon-Burns, shocked by a prison visit, asks how hard is it to be humane?
How women’s fear of sexual violence persists across generations
Across generations, messages about sexuality and safety change but one primal fear remains
World
Former UK PM Boris Johnson: ‘My charm has catastrophically worn off with lots of people'
Michele Hewitson talks Brexit, books, parties & philandering with Boris Johnson.
How an ancient fish may hold the key to Aussie PM’s re-election
Is Anthony Albanese's govt about to sanction the world’s first modern-day fish extinction?
Jane Clifton: Brits want royals to talk more about social issues and less about personal lives
Brexit, Royals and the Jaguar rebrand expose UK contradictions.
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