Celebrity hells not like real world

OPINION: History will judge all things, including Pippa Middleton’s breathtakingly wonderful bottom Historians will wonder why the rear end of this woman, holding the wedding train of her sister, so energised the world when she was first seen on live TV that she has been fodder for women’s magazines and tabloids ever since. When snapped by the paparazzi, she’s been portrayed as revealing the gamut of human misery when in reality she was probably just thinking about lunch

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Tales from the Back Benches

It is a Wednesday night and The Backbencher pub in central Wellington is packed. Unless you have booked a table, it is standing room only and there are some familiar faces in the crowd – Justice Minister Judith Collins shares space with people holding signs calling for the legalisation of cannabis and a fellow who has made a Peter Dunne puppet.

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Boston bomber makes Rolling Stone cover

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, a move that’s being described as glamourising terrorism. The music magazine said it chose Tsarnaev after contributing editor Janet Reitman spent two months interviewing dozens of people connected to him, including friends, teachers and police

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