Author Toby Morris
By The Wireless.
Tobby Morris is the creator of the Pencilsword and is also half of the Toby and Toby duo behind the series ‘That is the question’ at radionz.co.nz
Content by Toby
‘To the future we strive, to the challenge we rise’ – The Pencilsword
Toby Morris on the election results.
Winston Peters – NZ First – Follow the Leader
Down at the RSA with the man who could be the kingmaker.
Bill English – National – Follow the Leader
“Yo, it’s the Prime Minister!”
Jacinda Ardern – Labour – Follow the Leader
What changes when the cameras leave?
James Shaw – Greens – Follow the Leader
He’d lost his co-leader, his party had plummeted in the polls – what was he going to do?
Greed vs Need – The Pencilsword
Who do we see when we picture a tax evader or a benefit cheat?
Elimination – The Pencilsword
Eighty-seven native New Zealand species have become extinct. Who’s next?
What about the renters? – The Pencilsword
Let’s state this clearly – the majority of the country are renters.
Does the TAB get a free ride?
Reporting odds is part of sports coverage in New Zealand, but the Problem Gambling Foundation says it’s marketing masked as news.
No ‘I’ in sex – The Pencilsword
What Toby Morris wishes someone had told him as a teenage boy.
More prisons, more problems – The Pencilsword
Don’t snooze on politicians’ promises of more cops and prison beds. The cost is higher than you realise, says Toby Morris.
Creatures of the comments – The Pencilsword
Eleven species that creep up online.
She’ll have the fish – The Pencilsword
Don’t let anyone order for you at dinner, or in politics.
Breaking away from life on the streets – Streeties #3
After five years of sleeping rough, what seems normal to most people takes some getting used to.
Everyone and no-one – John Key
Farewell to the everyman Prime Minister – familiar and forgettable at the same time.
Trying to hold it together – Streeties #2
The challenges of being a woman living on the street.
From prison to the pavement – Streeties #1
The realities of living rough.
…and so on…
Preaching to the converted – The Pencilsword
Social media makes it easy to confuse our friends’ views with those of the rest of the world. Easy, and kind of dangerous.