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Bougainville's Self-Determination Struggle
Thursday, 27 March 2008, 8:56 pm | Jeremy Rose
Many readers of Lloyd Jones's 'Mr Pip' come to the novel unaware that there is even an island called Bougainville let alone with any knowledge of the conflict that provides the backdrop to the award winning work. More >>
A Bougainvillian Gives Mr Pip The Thumbs-Up
Thursday, 27 March 2008, 8:43 pm | Jeremy Rose
The Scoop Review of Books recently asked the President of the Autonomous Government of Bougainville, Joseph Kabui, whether he had had the chance to read the Mr Pip. “No, I haven’t heard of it,” was his succinct reply. More >>
SRB: A Bougainvillian gives Mr Pip the thumbs-up
Saturday, 15 March 2008, 12:52 am | Jeremy Rose
Lloyd Jones’s award winning Mr Pip has been celebrated from London to New York but until now a Bougainvillian voice has been absent from those praising it. More >>
SRB: Bougainville’s self-determination struggle
Saturday, 15 March 2008, 12:46 am | Jeremy Rose
Many readers of Lloyd Jones’s Mr Pip come to the novel unaware that there is even an island called Bougainville let alone with any knowledge of the conflict that provides the backdrop to the award winning work. More >>
SBR: Bougainville’s struggle for self-determinatio
Friday, 14 March 2008, 9:46 pm | Jeremy Rose
“I stood there watching one of the BRA [Bougainville Revolutionary Army] soldiers trembling on the ground with his head bleeding … Five minutes later he was motionless with his mouth closed and eyes open. I took a deep breath and started to drag the ... More >>
SBR: A Bougainvillian gives Mr Pip the thumbs-up
Friday, 14 March 2008, 9:42 pm | Jeremy Rose
Lloyd Jones’s award winning Mr Pip has been celebrated from London to New York but until now a Bougainvillian voice has been absent from those praising it. More >>
SRB: Stutterer Gets R&W Week Off To A Fluent Start
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 4:33 pm | Jeremy Rose
“Stutterers don’t stutter when they’re talking to dogs…. Unless, perhaps, they’re an intimidatingly intelligent dog,” life-long stutterer and author, David Mitchell, noted while answering a question at the opening session of Wellington’s ... More >>
Images: Spanish Graffiti
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 5:05 pm | Jeremy Rose
Jeremy Rose's images of graffiti from Spain More >>
1100 People View Suppressed Police Affidavit
Monday, 3 December 2007, 2:39 pm | Jeremy Rose
The person responsible for posting the police affidavit from the so-called Urewera 17 "terrorism" case on the internet says it was accessed by 1100 people before it was withdrawn. (Many of those people are likely to have forwarded the document to ... More >>
Journalism Matters: Jeremy Rose On Media Ownership
Monday, 13 August 2007, 3:26 pm | Jeremy Rose
Jeremy Rose Speaks At The Journalism Matters Conference Sunday 12 September - Parliament Buildings - Image By Kevin List Click for big version More >>
Barcelona’s annual orgy of car lust
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 11:41 am | Jeremy Rose
Bicycles were the fashion-accessory of choice for car manufacturers at this year’s Barcelona Car Show. A shiny Mercedes sedan was bedecked with two Mercedes-branded mountain bikes, while Skoda showed off its nifty Roomster with built-in bike carrier, ... More >>
Time To Get Serious About Nuclear Free Middle East
Friday, 30 March 2007, 10:57 am | Jeremy Rose
The United Nation’s General Assembly, The Security Council, the Arab League, Iran, Israel, Egypt, and the Non-Aligned Movement are just some of those who have publicly lent their support to a Middle East nuclear free zone over the past three decades. More >>
Jeremy Rose: Globalisation’s Unsung Martyrs
Monday, 3 April 2006, 12:47 am | Jeremy Rose
In same the week that ETA announced an indefinite ceasefire - after more than 40 years of terrorism and 817 deaths - Spanish police revealed that between 1000 and 1500 sub-Saharan Africans had died attempting to reach the Canary Islands in the ... More >>
Jeremy Rose: Barcelona’s Christmas Crapper Canned
Sunday, 25 December 2005, 8:11 am | Jeremy Rose
The traditional Caganer – a figurine of a man taking a shit – that has been gracing nativity scenes in Catalonia since at least the 16th century has been omitted from Barcelona’s official Christmas display this year because it was felt not to be in ... More >>
Jeremy Rose: God Save Us From National Anthems
Friday, 15 February 2002, 10:05 am | Jeremy Rose
One of the things that makes me proud to be a New Zealander is how few of us know the words to our national anthem. More >>
A Chance To Save The World A Thousand Times
Wednesday, 6 February 2002, 1:10 pm | Jeremy Rose
Legend has it that some of my ancestors spent time in the Sinai Desert. But I doubt that Richard Prebble had people like my grandparents, who arrived in New Zealand as refugees from Hitler in 1939, in mind when he spoke of the danger of letting too ... More >>
Scoop Images: Samoa - "It's going crazy"
Sunday, 12 November 2000, 1:50 pm | Jeremy Rose
Friday 11th November - APIA: Pupils at Apia's Loto Taumafai Education Centre for the Disabled staged an enactment of the Tua/Lewis fight today. More >>
Scoop Images: Children's Performance For Tuaman
Saturday, 11 November 2000, 1:29 pm | Jeremy Rose
Samoan children at a school for the deaf and disabled put a David Tua performance on today in Apia, Samoa. More >>
TUA FIGHT: Super Sporting Saturday in Samoa
Friday, 10 November 2000, 12:03 am | Jeremy Rose
It’s being billed as Super Sporting Saturday in Samoa. A day which will start at 4.30am Saturday Samoan time (Samoa is 24 hours behind NZ) with the Manu Samoa vs Wales test, continues with the league World Cup quarter-final between Toa Samoa and ... More >>
Jeremy Rose: Pacifism And Genocide
Friday, 10 September 1999, 1:21 am | Jeremy Rose
In the first guest commentary of the Scoop Special on East Timor, Wellington journalist - and committed pacifist - Jeremy Rose struggles with the question of when an armed intervention is warranted. More >>
