Reviewing the review: David Burton’s goose is cooked

Wel­ling­ton has one daily news­pa­per, and that news­pa­per has one res­taur­ant crit­ic, who cer­tainly has his own… dis­tinct­ive style. The Fly has decided that Dav­id Bur­ton needs some account­ab­il­ity. We’re giv­ing him his own series. Nor­mally the Fly is pre­pared to see Dav­id Bur­ton’s reviews as some kind of strange per­form­ance art, but his “review” of […]

Reviewing the review: Flight Hangar

Wel­ling­ton has one daily news­pa­per, and that news­pa­per has one res­taur­ant crit­ic, who cer­tainly has his own… dis­tinct­ive style. The Fly has decided that Dav­id Bur­ton needs some account­ab­il­ity. Wel­come to this new series. What review: Dav­id Bur­ton on The Hangar Dav­id Bur­ton is bet­ter than you: 3/5 “Yet des­pite our endur­ing Kiwi attach­ment to […]

Questionable advertising published by the Dominion Post

Yes­ter­day, 11th of April, Wel­ling­ton’s Domin­ion Post – and the NZ Her­ald – pub­lished an advert­ise­ment that ruffled my feath­ers. Now this was not a ruffle like the tuss­ling of a child’s hair or that of an orna­ment­al lace about one’s wrists, but more of a scuffle of dis­be­lief, anger and con­fu­sion – not too […]

We also have ‘opinions’ – a protest against transphobia

If you’re on the Twit­ters, you would have seen yet anoth­er digust­ing piece of bigotry and bull­shit churned out by Rose­mary McLeod about how trans­gender people should­n’t be par­ents. The @dompost rebut­tal? “The column is her opin­ion.”. Yes, and they’re the ones who paid for her to have that opin­ion pub­lished. Luck­ily, the Queer Avengers […]

Tom Beard jumps the shark!

(Just kid­ding) Like par­ents – or how we ima­gine them to be – we are immensely proud when one of our snotty brats achieves recog­ni­tion for the things at which they excel. And in this case, Oor Tom has been fea­tured in the My Favour­ite Table sec­tion in Wed­nes­day’s Dom Post Cap­it­al Life sup­ple­ment, being recog­nised for […]