BBC Hardtalk Roasts Key On 100% Pure Image – Update: Video

BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur roasted John Key over New Zealand’s 100% Pure brand image in a recent televised interview. Most of us know that NZ 100% Pure is only an advertising slogan and that it has been dropped from the country’s marketing in favour of the 100% Pure You brand, but it is interesting nevertheless…

The Haka – Come Prancing? – updated

A writer for UK’s  The Sunday Times has torn-off NZ Rugby a strip, saying their Haka is a self-important bore and arrogant. (emphasis ours) “IT WAS once a theatrical affair, loved by children and armchair fans, but the ridiculous bout of pre-game posturing has no place in rugby today.” The article, re-published on The Australian‘s…

“Looks Like Arkansas” ANTM Arrives In Auckland

Forget Tyra Banks, forget Nigel Barker and forget the talented young women who made it through to the big OE courtesy of ANTM. Guess who was really ‘the star’ of the show? That’s right, according to Tourism New Zealand it was the Land of the Long White Cloud (aka that little country above Canada, the…