Latest from Alan Duff

COMMENT: This weekend the world will feel ended for some and gloriously begun for others.

COMMENT: Rugby reflects the mateship Kiwis hold dear at the heart of their culture.

COMMENT: When a politician says he represents the poor, he is not telling the truth.

COMMENT: Colin Meads was a great New Zealander, says Alan Duff.

COMMENT: We're desperate for more tradesmen, not boys whipped into shape.

COMMENT: Julian Savea - the Bus - will be back. Those writing him off maybe not.

Why Alan Duff is thinking about changing who he votes for.

COMMENT: NZ needs a Guggenheim Museum like the one here in Bilbao, Spain.

COMMENT: Jones has air of over-confident club player convinced he should have been an AB.

COMMENT: Time to hand out tough sentences to welfare-bludger criminals.

COMMENT: Explorers teach us fundamental truths.

COMMENT: Some passengers' habits can turn already tiring long-haul travel into an ordeal.

COMMENT: Excessive displays of mirth and ego betray Kiwi values.

COMMENT: Everyone's an expert until events intervene, writes Alan Duff.

COMMENT: The Swiss show how business might take a far more active part in society.

Comment: We're less racially divided than a tiny minority would have us, says Alan Duff.

COMMENT: Too little commitment by leaders and lack of family support are barriers to kids.

COMMENT: Sometimes we find it hard to understand China but we need to try, says Alan Duff.

COMMENT: New leader has defied critics but path ahead is tough, writes Alan Duff.

COMMENT: Some offenders are trying to reclaim what was never given to them in first place

COMMENT: Macron is about to dance with France's first lady, Paris, writes Alan Duff.

COMMENT: No culture is friendlier - except when at the wheel, writes Alan Duff.

COMMENT: What is happening in Syria all depends on where you source your news from.

COMMENT: Alan Duff wants to see New Zealand try out more cultural festivals.

COMMENT: Welfare, drugs and booze are issues for many Maori, argues Alan Duff.

COMMENT: Achievement an inspiration that shatters generational mindset, writes Alan Duff.

COMMENT: My father opened our minds to notions, concepts bigger than our mere selves and gifted us with the rules of grammar.

COMMENT: As the world's least corrupt country, we are lucky that the brazilian outlook hasn't taken hold here. But it could if we're not vigilant.

A break-down in the countryside was a reminder of classic rural integrity and why our day-to-day problems fail to matter, writes Alan Duff.

COMMENT: Looking in our backyard at the familiar and the challenging, everything is so New Zealand, eh? Yeah-nah.

COMMENT: Uproar engulfing presidential hopeful is the sound of bubble bursting for political elite, writes Alan Duff.