New Zealand Listener

From the Listener archive: Columnists

December 17-23 2005 Vol 201 No 3423

• The Black Page Swap with me by Joanne Black
  Women should be taking airlines to the cleaners for making them sit next to unaccompanied children.

• Design Please buy my bowl by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
  How do craftspeople attract the attention of buyers who have never set foot in a craft gallery or taken a good look at contemporary New Zealand craft?

• Drink Give these a go by Keith Stewart
  One of the greatest attributes of drinks containing alcohol is that there is so much variety, not just in flavour, but also in style and craft.

• Economy Dateline Hong Kong by Brian Easton
  What will happen to the Doha Round?

• Editorial Holding our own by Tim Watkin
  In 2003, Don Brash made the comment that Labour took such glee in using against him this year on its election billboards.

• Food By the book by Lois Daish
  In the lead up to Christmas, there are new books galore for hands-on cooks or those who just want to browse.

• Health & Science Think of a colour by Kim Griggs
  Anna, a synaesthete, sees A as cobalt blue, V mid-green and N light green, which gives reading whole new dimensions.

• How It's Going My word! by David Hill
  Don’t believe writers who tell you that they never read reviews of their work.

• Politics Rough justice by Jane Clifton
  The Opposition and the media are in full-on bullying mode, but is it righteous public scrutiny, or hypocrisy?

• Sport First-choice selection by Joseph Romanos
  It is undeniable that the All Black backline looks weaker when Tana Umaga is not there.

• Travel Bligh Water by Graeme Lay
  Dumped in a tiny skiff by mutineers, Captain Bligh charted a course still followed by modern cruise liners over 200 years later.

• Wide Area News Ever since Adam by Russell Brown
  If state television had been exposed to genuine competition 30 years ago, the landscape would have looked very different today.