Verity Johnson

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Lisette Reymer |Verity Johnson |Michael Daly |Ripu Bhatia

When Jane Gregory met her husband Steve at a comedy night in Melbourne, she thought she had hit the romantic jackpot. He was handsome, clever and funny, and the two of them couldn’t stop chatting. The only catch? He was British and lived 10,000 miles away. What followed was a three-year-long, transcontinental relationship, a wedding, and eventually – for Gregory, anyway – a one-way ticket to London. At last, they were living together in wedded bliss.

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Verity Johnson

Verity Johnson is an Auckland-based writer and business owner. OPINION: We’re a very contradictory country. We’re very friendly but notoriously difficult to make friends with. We’re ridiculously polite in person but utter monsters on the road. We’re naturally laid-back. But as soon as you mention anything even vaguely risqué, we lace up the corset of Austen-era conservatism and start acting like a scandalised parishioner. And nowhere do you see these contradictions more clearly than in comedy.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Lloyd Burr |Verity Johnson |Edward Gay

REVIEW: Growing up in the 1980s, I must have watched the first instalment of Star Wars more times than I can count. The release of the digitally remastered VHS in 1994 must have brought the viewing tally into triple figures. Yet at the British Film Institute’s (BFI) Thursday night screening of a 35mm Star Wars release print – shorn of every last upgrade, buff and twiddly addition to have been inflicted on it over the last half-century – I felt like I was watching a completely different film.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Ripu Bhatia |Verity Johnson |Michael Daly |Chris Marriner

OPINION: There are some things in this life that seem eternal: the Matterhorn, Niagara Falls, Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza and naked Liz Hurley. You nod when you see one of them and say to yourself, “Everything changes, but these monumental vistas stay the same.”So, I believe it’s a matter of immense celebration that Hurley has used the occasion of her 60s up to gift the world another fine photograph of herself in the buff, posted to Instagram for everyone to enjoy.

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Marty Sharpe |Lloyd Burr |Verity Johnson |Melanie Lidman

Mossad: High-tech covert Israeli operation strikes targets deep inside IranMossad agents snuck into Iran and set up a factory to build explosive drones that were used to cripple Tehran’s air defences ahead of Friday’s strikes, intelligence officials said. The drones were activated and used to attack missile launchers pointed at Israel as the Israel Defence Force launched its overnight raid aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear programme.