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4 days ago | 
thespinoff.co.nz | James Borrowdale
On the 30th anniversary of one of rugby’s most memorable days, James Borrowdale reflects on what it all meant.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | James Borrowdale
Were you looking for a symbol to exemplify the gulf that lies between Auckland City Football Club and their rivals at the Club World Cup, you would find it at Kiwitea Street, the team’s home ground.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
nzherald.co.nz | James Borrowdale
Starting early: Neil Wagner with brother Peter, wicketkeeping, with the trampoline as backstop. Photo / suppliedAs he ghost-wrote Neil Wagner’s autobiography, James Borrowdale says he tried to tap into the cricketer’s mindset and found his voice. The voice of cricketer Neil Wagner, his Afrikaans accent softened by 15 years in New Zealand, became so familiar over the months we worked together on his autobiography, I sometimes found it narrating my dreams. Potent, bewildering dreams.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
inkl.com | James Borrowdale
The England Test captain, Ben Stokes, is among the players who have invested in Sixes. Photograph: Sixes Last month Headingley got a new cricket venue. It doesn’t have a lot in common with the long-established and much more famous one down the road – this one tends to be drier, warmer and significantly more attractive to young people. In October a similar venue arrived in Bristol, both just a couple of miles and a world away from the County Ground.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | James Borrowdale
From the spot where Helen Julius spread her arms across the peeling, sun-flecked green paint of the pavilion’s bench seats, Eden Park’s Outer Oval in Auckland was almost picturesque. There were the white-clad cricketers – Auckland batting, Canterbury in the field – and a bank of agapanthus just beginning to break out in flower beyond the sight-screen on the ground’s northern boundary. Sparrows, nesting in the pavilion roof, chattered incessantly.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |James Borrowdale |Geoff Bertram |John Sinclair
The disappearedSolitary confinement destroys people, but New Zealand continues to inflict it on our most vulnerable and damaged people, including children, as a matter of course. Aaron Smale reports on the practice that won’t go away and the people that are psychologically annihilated and physically disappeared in state institutions. By Aaron Smale
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |James Borrowdale
Smith heads for the Coromandel Peninsula, almost wilfully oblivious to the fact that society at large, as a malevolent political force tightens its grip on the country, is following the example of his marriage and breaking down. All of that, anyway, is forgotten when his grand vision suddenly becomes his view.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | James Borrowdale
SubscribeHome / The Listener / New ZealandBy James BorrowdaleSaveshareShare this articlefacebookcopy linktwitterlinkedinredditemail From the water, one sensed the mood of the crowd – 11,000 strong, banked above Naval Point, Lyttelton – souring, and then turning against an unlikely villain. A Hector’s dolphin/upokohue had been sighted by the dolphin spotters, leading to a delay to the start of the first day’s New Zealand Sail Grand Prix racing.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thespinoff.co.nz | James Borrowdale
In the internet age, personal privacy has become a more complex topic than ever before. The University of Auckland Business School’s Gehan Gunasekara has spent his career trying to define this concept. We find ourselves in the midst of one of history’s great turning points, something akin to the Enlightenment, the invention of the printing press, or the Industrial Revolution, during which our relationship to the world and each other is undergoing irrevocable change.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
thespinoff.co.nz | James Borrowdale
Auckland may be the largest city in Aotearoa, but it’s the small community-led organisations within it that make the city thrive. The Spinoff spoke to two council-funded organisations who are doing their bit. “Torrent.” That’s the word one 40-year resident of Dundale Avenue used to describe what became of the stream, then placidly gurgling a few metres from us, when the January 2023 floods wreaked havoc across Auckland.
