Every day between now and Christmas, spend at least 10 minutes in front of a mirror, holding out a hand and saying: 'no'.

Bethany Rolston is a Kiwi in London who loves coffee, music, words and people. A former community newspaper reporter, she now works in the world of architecture and design, and believes in the ...

For a long time, New Zealanders have focused on the issue of cold homes. But for at least a couple of decades, the opposite problem has been appearing in townhouses and apartments.

As the fight to revitalise te reo Māori continues, kōhanga reo are grappling with severe teacher shortages, outdated ...

In the wake of the government’s first crackdown on councils in August, The Spinoff’s Joel MacManus argued that Luxon had ...

Humanities and social science research topics being tweaked rhetorically to seem airy-fairy, impractical and/or ‘woke’ is ...

Joanne Wilkes is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland.

We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+. If you enjoy local documentaries: Shortland Street ...

As soon as a new viral moment started circulating six months ago, Alex Casey made a choice to avoid it for as long as humanly possible. This is her story. It’s not that I’m totally ignorant.

A new fund has been launched to provide freelance writers with grants to work on ambitious, in-depth journalism. The Vince Geddes In-Depth Journalism Fund, supported by the Auckland Radio Trust ...

Shanti Mathias spends a day in the Hauraki Gulf with a group of British scientists investigating the links between carbon and biodiversity in the seafloor mud. The ocean swell is tilting the boat ...

Joel LeBlanc (he/him) is a poet, freelance writer, reviewer, baker and naturopath based in Wellington, New Zealand. His poems have appeared in various publications, including Takahē, Poetry NZ ...