COMMENT; Hey Minister - there has never been a better time to visit NZ, says Paul Little.

COMMENT: Move to cage-free eggs is more like business-saving PR, says Paul Little.

COMMENT: What sort of lunkhead drives in Paris in the first place?

COMMENT: It's amazing how the simple act of buying your granddaughter a jigsaw puzzle from Amazon can take up the better part of a morning.

COMMENT: On Boxing Day I enjoyed a stroll along the bijou new Weona-Westmere Walkway. Eventually.

COMMENT: Lip syncing is a core skill for people in government departments to be able to move their lips while someone else's words come out.

COMMENT: Oxfam tells us that the world's richest eight people have as much money as its 3.6 billion poorest people. But what does it really mean?

COMMENT: Concern has been raised in some quarters at the number of university chancellorship positions that are occupied by silly old men.

COMMENT: To the Directors. Thank you for inviting me to provide a reference for John Key.

COMMENT: Recent cases indicate violence between and against children is widely accepted.

COMMENT: Wondering what to do with your new mayor now they've been elected? Paul Little makes some suggestions.

COMMENT: Wondering what Prince George was really meaning in Canada? Here, for the first time, Paul Little explains.

COMMENT: If you're looking for the best writerly word to sum up the times in which we live, you really can't go past Dickensian.

COMMENT: It has been so widely reported Norway is planning to give Finland a mountain for its 100th birthday you have to wonder how they will keep it a surprise.

COMMENT: More money, sex and a bigger house - the number of businesses and books dedicated to providing us with more happiness is growing relentlessly.

COMMENT: If you lived in Australia, today you would be getting another portion of your 24-hour-a-day media diet of the Tromp family and their plight.

COMMENT: I have long speculated we would find life on another planet before Auckland worked out what to do with its waterfront.

COMMENT: You just have to look at try-hard sexy acronym to know something's up. "Psst, kid - do you want to go to school? Or would you rather go to COOL?"

COMMENT: SkyPath looks like something from a city of the future conceived in the 1950s, but fortunately, retro is very on trend.

COMMENT: I can't find a Trip Advisor feedback that says: "The highway names are dreadfully dull."

COMMENT: If nothing else, the Rio Olympics are likely to go down as the most dangerous in history for those taking part.

COMMENT: The Wi-Fi went out the other night and I didn't know where to look. Literally. It was horrible.

COMMENT: The decision to get half the steel framing needed for SkyCity's new centre from Thai Herrick rather than local suppliers shocked many people.

COMMENT: How do toddlers end up in gorilla cages? Probably the same way they end up behind cars in driveways.

COMMENT: There's been far too much hysterical hanky wringing over the so-called problems of homelessness and poverty lately.

COMMENT: When the all-but-inevitable merger of media companies NZME and Fairfax was announced, journalistic reaction fell into two camps.

COMMENT: Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, but those who ignore it will never learn anything.

COMMENT: The Fitbit's most extraordinary function is that it deludes wearers into thinking they are doing something that will make them healthy.

COMMENT: We thought we knew who Americans were, but this year we have seen a new side to their character that has set me wondering about its origins.

COMMENT: The position of Aborigine people in Australia is not a local issue - it is an international human rights scandal.