Toby Manhire

New Zealand Listener

(@toby_etc) Toby Manhire is a Listener columnist and blogger, and a former Guardian comment editor.

Issue Listener Plus 4th Dec 2013

The famous font now has its own perfume - and it smells like nothing.

Issue Listener Plus 3rd Dec 2013

A groundswell of education experts are backing a British campaign to increase the starting age to seven.

Issue Listener Plus 2nd Dec 2013

KickFailure collects the "funniest and saddest" crowdfunding projects.

Issue Listener Plus 30th Nov 2013

Redditors create new movies by making their titles ever so slightly longer.

Issue Listener Plus 28th Nov 2013

The toy-maker has been challenged by a NZ scientist on its gender portrayal - and not for the first time.

Issue Listener Plus 26th Nov 2013

Canada’s debt to its elephantine, crack-smoking Toronto mayor.

Issue Listener Plus 23rd Nov 2013

A selection of the finest and funniest opening lines in journalism.

Issue Listener Plus 21st Nov 2013

Even the part-time pedant rises up against a misused “literally” – but have we all got it wrong?

Issue Listener Plus 20th Nov 2013

The digital evangelists' bete noire, Evgeny Morozov, says "cyberspace" and "the digital debate" is a load of malicious nonsense.

Issue Listener Plus 19th Nov 2013

The ultimate generic Opinion Piece on A Controversial Topic - complete with user comments.