Daily Telegraph NZ

1 week ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | Wally Richards

With the weather we are currently having, has lead to a slow but sure, continual growth of weeds. I was quite surprised how the weeds in my vegetable plot had advanced in the last couple of weeks when I checked the area the other day. Sufficient rain, along with soils temperatures still reasonable, vegetables are growing nicely, but so are the non-wanted plants called weeds. By the way what we call a weed, is really a plant that you don’t want growing where it is.

1 week ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | Kanwal Sibal

As geopolitical rifts deepen, the group struggles to find common ground on Ukraine, Gaza, trade, and the climate – raising doubts about its role. The G7 meeting in Canada is likely to put the internal cohesion of the group, which includes the leading Western economies plus Japan, to a severe test. Trump’s America rarely sees eye to eye with the six other countries regarding most issues on the agenda.

2 weeks ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | Jeffrey D. Sachs

Professor Lottaz’s summary on June 10, 2025 – War for War’s SakeThree years into the Ukraine War, the West is stuck in a loop of self-serving delusion and denial. What began as a strategic miscalculation has turned into a geopolitical disaster of epic proportions—not for Russia but for the Collective West. First among them is the European Union, which, by now, looks more unstable and riddled with internal fractures than Russia did at any point in the war.

2 weeks ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | Ekaterina Blinova

President Donald Trump called the Los Angeles protests “paid”, but who could be behind the havoc? Soros in the shadows“Allegations of funding links to [Soros’] Open Society Foundations have been raised,” Dr. Marco Marsili, researcher at Cà Foscari University of Venice, tells Sputnik. The protests aren’t spontaneous, there’s “a structured strategy” behind them, he claims.

2 weeks ago | dailytelegraph.co.nz | Wally Richards

Yes readers it’s that time of the year when we once again plant our garlic cloves and dream of big fat bulbs in December/January to harvest. That once was a normal pattern but has, in the last few years, gone from a dream to a nightmare as a dreaded rust commonly known as ‘Garlic Rust’ invaded New Zealand with devastating outcomes at harvest. Small bulbs with tiny cloves not worth the effort of peeling to use.