17 February 2026
On a fine summer evening in South Canterbury in early December, I set off for a public meeting at the Phar Lap Raceway in Timaru. I'd seen an advertisement in the local newspaper for a “Climate Change Tour” hosted by Groundswell and the Methane Science Accord.
1 May 1995
The following extract from William Doyle's Oxford History of the French Revolution (pp 64-65) reminds us that things change but things remain the same.
1 November 1991
William of Malmesbury chronicled the reign of ill-fated William Rufus, the red-headed son of William The Conqueror who was shot, so 'tis said, in mistake for a squirrel. In the early part of the 12th Century, he expressed some scepticism concerning portents following the king's burial within the tower of Winchester Cathedral.