This is an important story and I'm glad it so clearly makes the point that hospice isn't just a place you go to die, it's also a service delivered out in the community. Hospice nurses are absolute champs at working out what people need and getting it to happen. This system cannot be allowed to fail.

How we die: Inside New Zealand’s looming crisis in palliative care As New Zealand’s population ages, the number of people dying each year will rise rapidly. With hospices already experiencing funding shortages, who will care for us at the end of our lives?

wrote about death, dying and New Zealand's looming catastrophe in palliative care thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...

While record crowds watch Australia v England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Aotearoa’s biggest city hasn’t hosted test cricket since 2018.

In Metro’s summer issue, @jamesborrowdale.bsky.social analyses the state of the game and our national stadium as Auckland Cricket plans to leave Eden Park.

always love a good news story from South Africa

Man how good is this Proteas team, looks like a squad that can win anywhere. A lineup that has Maharaj batting 11 doesn't seem fair

‘Pressure is a privilege’: Braxton Sorensen-McGee on being New Zealand’s youngest star The 18-year-old is one of several prominent young Black Ferns fighting to retain the title and secure New Zealand’s seventh World Cup

‘Pressure is a privilege’: Braxton Sorensen-McGee on being New Zealand’s youngest star

Unpaid wages and walkouts: the downfall of the NBL’s Indian Panthers Just nine games into the 2025 NBL season, the Indian Panthers would be suspended from the league following allegations of unpaid player wages. James Borrowdale spoke to the players, owners and league ...

spent 4500 words trying to piece together exactly what went wrong with the Indian Panthers thespinoff.co.nz/business/23-...

Metro — Live Through This Golriz Ghahraman on the trauma and online attacks that broke her down, the mistakes she made, and the work she’s done — professional and therapeutic — to build herself back up.

I profiled Golriz for @metromagazinenz.bsky.social. Now online

www.metromag.co.nz/society/live...

can't imagine that a better cat could possibly exist

The ghost of 1995: that Rugby World Cup final, 30 years on Where were you, and what do you remember?

thirty years since the All Blacks met the Springboks in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. I wrote about the game and its legacy for @thespinoff.bsky.social. thespinoff.co.nz/sports/24-06...

Auckland City aiming to do amateur football proud in Bayern Munich mismatch ‘We represent 95% of footballers’ says assistant coach of team of barbers, teachers and students at Club World Cup

Wrote about Auckland City FC and the mountain before them for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Wagner’s world: Author James Borrowdale on getting into the mindset of Black Cap Neil Wagner The dynamic between ghostwriter and author has been likened to a counsellor and patient.

wrote about ghostwriting in this week's Listener www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Long, unhurried days with a cooler: the cricket fans sticking with New Zealand’s forgotten format In an age dominated by T20, New Zealand’s long-form Plunket Shield is a throwback to another time and retains a small group of committed fans From the spot where Helen Julius spread her arms across the peeling, sun-flecked green paint of the pavilion’s…

Long, unhurried days with a cooler: the cricket fans sticking with New Zealand’s forgotten format

Long, unhurried days with a cooler: the cricket fans sticking with New Zealand’s forgotten format In an age dominated by T20, New Zealand’s long-form Plunket Shield is a throwback to another time and retains a small group of committed fans

in the guardian today, writing about the plunket shield and the handful of fans who stick to it like barnacles
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Little essay from me on the strange, ongoing saga of Tom Phillips, the man who disappeared into bush with his three kids, and its relationship to some of New Zealand's most entrenched mythologies. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3604...

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This week's bestselling books - November 22 The latest Nielsen BookScan chart of bestselling NZ books, plus win a breathtaking novel

Good to see Neil Wagner's All Out, which I ghosted, climbing the bestseller's list - number four this week. newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/22/t...

The Sunday Essay: Cricket with child A magic summer shared by a cricket-mad father and his oblivious baby daughter.

the start of the cricket season will always have me feeling nostalgic for my first summer of fatherhood thespinoff.co.nz/the-sunday-e...

the reviews are in!

FULL MATCH LIVE COVERAGE Day 1 | Northern Districts v Auckland Aces - Plunket Shield YouTube video by NZC

how soothing to watch kane williamson bat against a red ball from one fixed camera angle to the accompaniment of the sirens, construction and birdsong of Hamilton
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_7...

maybe i am here, now