Build now, pay later

Thirty-two days. That’s how long the new SH1 Puhoi-Warkworth motorway was open to traffic before the first news story broke about the road being under threat.

Impaired numbers

I’m told the 1960s and 1970s were quite the decades to be alive. Unless, that is, you happened to be involved in an automobile accident.

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Many promises, many opinions

The countdown to Election 2023 is down from months to weeks, five as of tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean things are slowing down. The campaign trail is as…

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Stepping back from oneself

Yesterday, I took my car for a WOF – a simple obligation anyone with a road-registered vehicle will be familiar with, and the least the law requires of us to…

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Poles Apart

I was talking to a friend in a local coffee shop this morning. She’s someone whose opinion I respect; incredibly well educated and informed with significant…

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