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The trailer for season three of The Crown is here and so is Queen Olivia Colman

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Informed via telegram that Netflix has released a full trailer for the new season of The Crown, Tara Ward puts on her best pillbox hat and white gloves to find out what round three will bring.  The good Lorde told us we’ll never be royals, so the first full trailer for the new season of … Read more

Waitangi Week: the Queen is dead, or may as well be

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All week this week we feature tangata whenua writing to mark Waitangi Day on Wednesday. Today: in this extract from a book of essays, Morgan Godfery wonders exactly what the point is of New Zealand bowing to a monarch “of a rain-soaked island off the north-western coast of the European mainland”. One of my earliest memories is, for … Read more