"It got to the point where I even accused my wife of being a Bulgarian fruit picker. I was in a very dark place. "But then my doctor told me he was trialling a radical new treatment for the male menopause." Hayes' GP, Dr Julian Cook said: "Having...

As you might have guessed, it's the culminating entry in my recent exchange with Peter Hitchens. In it, I discuss the absence of evidence for non-human moral authority, the fact that accusations of unbridled hedonism have always been used in an attempt...

There was one item, however, that caught my attention -- this column in the New York Times, which had the following line: There's something so ironic -- almost Shakespearean -- about two siblings whose viewpoints diverged so dramatically. But Peter...

Nobody cared that he had spent much of his adult life in prison for violence, or that he had once raped a seven-year-old girl. As Lady Justice Hallett (of course) reduced his prison sentence on appeal last week, she asked in some astonishment: "Do we...

Now he was expected to help break his own record. But Halberg was struggling with the revelation that a training buddy had died on the trip south from Auckland. Popular Owairaka athlete Peter Hitchens had drowned while swimming off Foxton Beach. ...

Peter Hitchens has written two further comments on my previous post, in one of which he states that he'll be bowing out of the debate from this point on. So be it; there are, of course, many respects in which we disagree, but I appreciate the time and...