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In my opinion, this is the best way to cook pork so that it’s still lovely and juicy. You can make the colcannon ahead of time and reheat it in a saucepan on a low heat. Just add a little more milk to loosen it. The sauce is very rich and has a strong flavour, so use sparingly. Ingredients · For the colcannon · - 40g butter - 2 onions, finely sliced - 150g savoy cabbage, shredded - 1kg potatoes (choose good mashers), peeled and cut into…

‘[This] has been the busiest, gloomiest and most exciting fortnight I have ever passed. The war has suddenly left Taranaki and broken out here.’1 So wrote Rev Vicesimus Lush, Anglican minister, in his journal on July 19th 1863. Only a month before, he had speculated that the fighting was not expected to ‘extend beyond the Taranaki.’2 With war breaking out within his parish borders, rather than hundreds of miles away, Lush stopped being a casual…

Caffeine appears to do the opposite of what you might think when it comes to the heart. Scientists have found that a cup of coffee a day actually protects the heart from atrial fibrillation – a condition that can lead to stroke and heart failure. University of Adelaide and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers have led a randomized clinical trial of 200 adults from Australia, the US and Canada with AF to test coffee's…

Hani lay face down as the blood from his two neighbours’ heads seeped into the sand around him. · The bullet wounds were still fresh and rifle barrels were warm in the hands of the Arab militiamen standing above him. · The two women’s lives had ended on the outskirts of the Sudanese city of El Fasher because they had dared to move. · They were among dozens that were shot for disobeying the order to lie still by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…

On June 26, 1974, a checkout employee at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio became the first person to scan a grocery item—a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum—using a Universal Product Code (UPC). Better known as a barcode, UPCs soon became ubiquitous, used everywhere from grocery and retail stores to hospitals and Mars rovers. · The innovation arose as a way to solve the manual, time-consuming processes that plagued grocery stores, but…

NZ First has quietly withdrawn its members’ bill defining “man” and “woman” in biological terms to make way for a new proposal banning public fireworks sales. · Many supporters of the party are dismayed by the move, while others say it shows the party’s preference for publicity over policy. · The “ban on fireworks” announcement was timed for maximum attention, landing a day before Guy Fawkes Night and featuring a press release quoting Winston…

The number of mortgagee sales in New Zealand has almost doubled since May, reflecting the growing strain on borrowers from high interest rates and falling household incomes. · Interest.co.nz’s Greg Ninness reports that 119 properties were advertised for mortgagee sale in the first week of November, up 98 percent from 60 in early May, the highest level since tracking began in 2022. · More than half of the listings (54 percent) are in Auckland,…

There currently seems to be a radical agenda to advance Maori supremacy instead of democracy in New Zealand. This is being supported in a large part by a network of bureaucrats and academics, who, along with a vast array of private sector advocates including many in the legacy media and the unions are promoting race-based changes. This network of bureaucrats, academics and others who are championing this promotion of race based changes which…

New Zealand First has introduced a Member’s Bill that will ban the public sale and use of fireworks across New Zealand. The abuse and misuse of fireworks far outweighs any of the benefits. “The taxpayer should not be spending millions of dollars on something that drastically impacts pets, causes inevitable fires, and causes havoc for our emergency services” – Rt Hon Winston Peters. · Enough is enough. · “This is not about being ‘nanny…

A record number of New Zealanders are heading across the Tasman, drawn by higher wages and a lower cost of living as the domestic economy falters. Provisional data from Stats NZ shows 73,900 citizens left in the year to August 2025, the highest annual departure on record. More than half moved to Australia, where wages are stronger and residency rights are automatic. In 2024, New Zealand recorded a net migration loss of 30,000 people to…