Opinion: The person you need is Nanny McPhee
Kicking someone out of your flat is a shitty experience, particularly when it’s a byproduct of your own shitty behaviour. Though it’s usually justified, the experience nonetheless leaves scars on the flat. Conversations are left in flux; a uniting, common enemy is lost; rent must be covered. Who’s gonna cop the passive aggressive flack from everyone at flat meetings? Where will the drama go that everyone so desperately craves?...
Opinion: Fuck It, Let’s Privatise the Business School
Well, here we are. It’s the final issue of Critic for 2023, and my final issue forever. I’ve been lucky enough to spend three glorious, tumultuous, unhinged years writing for this publication, and now the time has come for my final rampage. And to that I say: fuck it, let’s privatise the Business School. Fully and exclusively.
If you’ve been following along this year, you know that 2023 has been nothing...
The Dummy's Guide to Travelling to Hawai’i
Welcome to the Dummy's Guide to Travelling to Hawai’i, where we'll show you how to turn a dream vacation into a nightmare of confusion, frustration, and inefficiency. Who needs simplicity and relaxation when you can make everything needlessly complex? It's time to discuss the epidemic of over-tourism and the astonishing fact that only dumbasses seem to be visiting Hawai'i during this period of crisis. Yes, you heard it...
Planning Your Course to Make the Best Apology Video
Are you having trouble with your online image? Finding that your comment section is more shame than fame? If you’ve done something to get yourself cancelled it can be hard to navigate the digital experience. That’s why a tried-and-true method to cleanse yourself of all wrongdoing is the classic apology video.
Think Logan Paul apologising for filming the suicide forest. David Dobrik posting “let’s...
Scoop McNeilly: 15 years covering student affairs
Through all the riots and revolutions that Dunedin students have staged, Stuff reporter Hamish McNeilly has seen it all. Fortunately for us, he was sober the whole time, allowing him to recall every last detail.
Hamish is the sole Stuff reporter in Dunedin and a former Otago University student. He returned to the city in 2008, this time with his notepad, a camera and, in my mind, a fedora. Despite a decade and a half of...
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