Crusader is offensive yet the word jihad is still perfectly acceptable?

Is the price of healthy, balanced diet to high

If cyclist is dehumanising, what then is motorist, racist, extremist or terrorist?

After a foot injury, Kate Stewart faced a long wait for emergency treatment

Kate Stewart on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

People are desperately seeking acceptance by identifying as almost anything under the sun

What does one do when even "the truth" isn't actually the truth?

Why bother having your own opinion anymore when you can just adopt someone else's

How strange the past looks through today's politically correct perspective

Generation Snowflake

Most regard the economic growth of Whanganui as positive. But not all agree ...

Kate Stewart's slightly tongue-in-cheek predictions for 2019.

Who knew, though, that we would have a "Ms Mercedes", aka Rouxle Le Roux, of our own?

A PC friendly dictionary of in-vogue vocabulary.

Kate Stewart on the PC world of Christmas

Kate Stewart talks about her new political party the Flying Pig Party (FPP)

Deviant, often a bad thing, but are there good deviants?

Kate Stewart takes a trip up north to Auckland

Tissue company Kleenex can no longer market 'man-sized' tissues. Kate's not happy.

Our teachers deserve a far better deal than they currently have

Ideally, monies allocated to the likes of health and education would be bottomless

In NZ, we have always had this habit of looking to other countries to find solutions

I have the ideas, the creativity - I'm overflowing with it like an incontinent camel

What next for prison inmates? KFC, aromatherapy or electric chair with star energy rating

Why are we so reluctant to use that word?

New birth certificate options is beyond PC gone mad and enters into the realm of insanity

Kate Stewart on taxes

At age 51 and counting, the full-time employment options for me seem to be dwindling .

Kate Stewart on the world of PC correctness

Kate Stewart, thinking out loud

When a Whanganui councillor suggested there were too many of them, Kate Stewart agreed...

Kate Stewart on unlimited broadband and Net Flix

Time to do battle with Vodafone's accounting Ninjas

New Zealand's next sorry attempt at reality TV is just days away.

Kate Stewart tries to fathom glaring contradictions of today's modern society.

Kate Stewart takes a swipe at poor parenting

Yes, ladies, it's that time of year, again. The season of dread and the imagined dead.

The alarming rise of the working poor - blame the banks argues Kate Stewart

How to spot an internet addict

It's bad enough subsidising Aucklanders' sorry arses, now we've got to feel sorry for them

Kate Stewart looks at how to solve the housing crisis

Kate Stewart's satirical look at the upcoming Hillary Clinton visit.

Kate Stewart ponders the visit to NZ of former US president Obama.

Political correctness and over sensitivity ... has it killed humour?

Just because something is "trending", it doesn't make it right, let alone tasteful.

Guilty till proven innocent is the rule in sexual misconduct witchhunt

Oh Lorde ... boycotting a concert in Israel only hurts the innocent

Stuck down a quiet lane, Kate Stewart is told to take a hike with her rubbish bin

Kate Stewart ponders the Government's policy to reduce child poverty.

As a parent, I'm not in the running for any awards.

Kate Stewart discusses how to get away with murder

Kate Stewart reviews the more disturbing and annoying trends of 2017.

Kate Stewart is thinking out loud about Christmas

Kate Stewart grapples with technology

Christmas songs re-written in the manner of the 'spend-spend-spend' philosophy

Kate Stewart is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Future.

Kate Stewart discusses Hollywood and sexuality.

Racism is not as black-and-white as it seems

Winston Peters made his coalition announcement with theatrical timing.

New Zealanders spent 4.7 billion dollars online last year - much of it offshore.

Chronicle columnist Kate Stewart is no masterchef but can she handle My Food Bag.

Kate Stewart: People are too busy? Get real!

I heard rumblings, they were getting louder and out of nowhere, I was hit from above.

US news channels milked hurricane Irma for all it was worth, writes Kate Stewart.

Crunch the numbers election quiz -- could you be a finance minister?

Kate Stewart's latest column...

Take Kate Stewart's multi-choice political test.

'It's like a white supremacist moving to Fiji.'

Run for cover -- unexploded egg in the pantry

'Synthetic cannabis' the wrong name for deadly drug

Will testing for banned substances in schools become the next ethical hot potato?

If prisoners get conjugal visits, will there be scented candles and rose petals, too?

You can only appreciate real success when you have tasted failure

Three events to put Whanganui on the map and promote tourism.

WOOHOO ... in your face Team Oracle!

Faking a death can put you beyond the law

Vege prices soar -- and it's all the fault of celebrity chefs