Weather Eye with John Maunder A sunspot is a relatively dark, sharply defined region on the solar disc - marked by an umbra, dark area, which is 2000 degrees cooler than the effective photospheric temperature. The average... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It started well enough. But soon turned to crap. It was a note from Unesco advising of the upcoming International Day of Tolerance on November 16. Imagine, a Day of Tolerance - recalibrating... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Around 1980, I quit Southampton University and upped sticks for New Zealand, an uninformed decision fuelled by bad drugs and hubris. I spent my last night there drinking... Read More

Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey Here's the truth: change doesn't happen on its own. If we want to see a fairer, more open political system, then we need to be the ones driving it. Sitting on the sidelines is easy,... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid A sparkling century from Auckland Aces batsman Michael Scalanders on Saturday, laid down the markers of excellence at the Bay Oval this season. The Auckland side was... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder My new book from Amazon -Extracts from a few pages from Chapter 1 Viewpoint One Net zero policies will have a trivial effect on temperature, but disastrous effects on people worldwide.... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Labour weekend already? The year is rushing to a close. Only a week until an American election. The world is on a knife edge. We finally learn whether being a convicted... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny OPINION Yuh love it. Yuh hate it. Garish, stylised, in-your-face, radical contemporary art. Graffiti art. But art nonetheless. Modern graffiti has been around since the 1970s in Philadelphia... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The White Ferns and Black Caps rewrite history. Our two national cricket teams climbed their own Mt Everest in the space of 24 twenty-four hours. First, the Black... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder My new book from Amazon -Extract from a few pages from Chapter 1: Damaging weather events inevitably lead to climate evangelists making apocalyptic claims of imminent disaster. UN Secretary... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Let it go! Please just let it go!! It was 71 years, two months and 19 days ago by my reckoning - 26,013 days ago. So, can we just move on? Okay, there was a Union Jack 8849m up the world's... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz One thing to know about jamming and open mic nights: in Tauranga and the Mount they mostly happen on Wednesdays. Mostly. So, I donned my Secret Squirrel hat and Danger... Read More