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Jane Clifton

New Zealand

Columnist at New Zealand Herald

NZ Listener columnist

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  • 1 day ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Clifton

    The mildest of capitulations to the rewilding movement has proved incendiary. Photo / Getty ImagesOpinion by Jane CliftonJane Clifton is a columnist for the NZ ListenerLearn moreAs if there were any shortage of global rifts, a new turf war is escalating: the politics of grass. Where once “watching grass grow” was the epitome of dullness, it’s now in some quarters a crime against the planet, in others a sacred taonga under barbarous attack.

  • 2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Clifton

    Opinion by Jane CliftonJane Clifton is a columnist for the NZ ListenerLearn moreFor all the benefits it has conferred on its members, the European Union often resembles an imperious aunt from a PG Wodehouse story, permanently tut-tutting and issuing lofty edicts from afar. A new directive, however, has made many in its population base of 450 million draw a sharp breath.

  • 3 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Clifton

    Born to be mild: Had dogs foreseen Instagram, they may have resisted domestication. Photo / Getty ImagesOpinion by Jane CliftonJane Clifton is a columnist for the NZ ListenerLearn moreWho’s a good boy, then? Dogs are now fetching us more than sticks and frisbees. Perhaps in return for many millennia of increasingly cushy domestication, they’re on track to bring us a human longevity drug.

  • 4 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Clifton

    A scene from the film Midnight Express, the film which is also often blamed for crimping the development of Türkiye’s relations with the West and slowing its admission to the European Union.

  • 1 month ago | nzherald.co.nz | Jane Clifton

    Centreline munch: A moment of reverie on Achill Island. Photo / Getty ImagesOpinion by Jane CliftonJane Clifton is a columnist for the NZ ListenerLearn moreI have seen the future of road-traffic management. It’s low-tech and multi-functional, eliminating the need for orange cones, stop-go signs and even traffic lights. “Sure, we don’t have traffic lights here,” the distillery owner on Ireland’s Achill Island warns visitors on their way in.

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