In the latest issue of 1972, Toby Manhire surveys the repeatedly surprising career of Winston Peters, our maternity cover Prime Minister, and wonders: which Winston will we get?
For someone who styles himself as a straight-shooter, Winston Peters is one hell of a puzzle. To mangle the words of Winston Churchill, after whom he was named, Peters is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a double-breasted, pin-striped suit. At
Since This American Life’s Serial kickstarted the podcasting boom four years ago, every man and his best friend now spends their time chatting away into a microphone. With so many podcasts to choose from, we’ve selected a few of our favourites to plug your ears with as you cook, clean, travel, commute, and yes, even while you’re putting together your own one.
Your brain needs exercise to stay healthy. Here’s why forcing it to learn something new – especially something hands-on – can expand your brain power, as well as your horizons.
Not only does taking on a new challenge push the grey matter you have to work harder – we now know the process of trying something novel, and working hard to improve, can actually change the structure of the brain.
As you practice any activity or thought process that’s
Stay underwater all night with these briny documentaries.
Jago: A Life Underwater
This award-winning documentary follows an octogenarian free diver and “jago” (master) of the sea. Rohani is a leathery Bajau man from the Togian Islands in Indonesia, and he still freedives to spearfish with a handmade harpoon, diving to a depth of up to 120 feet on one breath, perching on coral or treading along the seabed. His life story
Lee Scarratt stops off at a midway point in the middle of nowhere and considers staying for good.
We arrived in the middle of nowhere early one morning. After eight hours on a bus from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Besut in Malaysia, my partner Tran and I descended with our backpacks, haggard and uncertain, onto a deserted forecourt. We had been told that we would be dropped off at a boat that would take us to paradise, aka the Perhentian Islands. But there was no water
I don’t usually like spending my holidays reading the biographies of high achievers. In the heat of summer, when I’m in the depths of slacker mode, I just can’t relate. But renegade high achievers are another story. And high achieving bad boys? Perfecto.
James Walker reports from a Thai fat camp where things aren’t going very well. Names have been changed to protect Kamalaya’s long-suffering staff from being slandered by James’s self-serving distortions.
The Kamalaya Health and Wellness compound is set hillside, in a tropical forest on Koh Samui. Huts are set amongst coconut trees, and jurassic-sized beetles whir about. Despite the serenity, check in was ominous. I was told all the restaurants were
The lead up to Christmas can be a really tough time of the year for so many New Zealand men and families so Barkers and Movember want to ensure that while many of us celebrate the upcoming holiday season, we are still looking after our mates and men.
During December we will donate $1 from every purchase to support mens mental health.
December represents the biggest sales period in retail, so what better
We’re sitting in our rental car in the heaving streets of Buenos Aires, trying to get to Estadio José Amalfitani. There’s a couple of hours to go before the All Blacks play the Pumas, and it’s getting a little tense because the police have blocked off the one road we know will get us to the stadium. The detour has caused us to loop around, through a teeming suburb of low-rise concrete and acrid fumes.
The car contains the entire New Zealand media contingent. There’s
