James Borrowdale
@jamesborrowdale.bsky.social
Writer, journalist
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This is an important story and I'm glad it so clearly makes the point that hospice isn't just a place you go to die, it's also a service delivered out in the community. Hospice nurses are absolute champs at working out what people need and getting it to happen. This system cannot be allowed to fail.
wrote about death, dying and New Zealand's looming catastrophe in palliative care thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...
How we die: Inside New Zealand’s looming crisis in palliative care
As New Zealand’s population ages, the number of people dying each year will rise rapidly. With hospices already experiencing funding shortages, who will care for us at the end of our lives?
thespinoff.co.nz
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 AM
This is an important story and I'm glad it so clearly makes the point that hospice isn't just a place you go to die, it's also a service delivered out in the community. Hospice nurses are absolute champs at working out what people need and getting it to happen. This system cannot be allowed to fail.
wrote about death, dying and New Zealand's looming catastrophe in palliative care thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...
How we die: Inside New Zealand’s looming crisis in palliative care
As New Zealand’s population ages, the number of people dying each year will rise rapidly. With hospices already experiencing funding shortages, who will care for us at the end of our lives?
thespinoff.co.nz
January 18, 2026 at 11:32 PM
wrote about death, dying and New Zealand's looming catastrophe in palliative care thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...
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While record crowds watch Australia v England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Aotearoa’s biggest city hasn’t hosted test cricket since 2018.
In Metro’s summer issue, @jamesborrowdale.bsky.social analyses the state of the game and our national stadium as Auckland Cricket plans to leave Eden Park.
In Metro’s summer issue, @jamesborrowdale.bsky.social analyses the state of the game and our national stadium as Auckland Cricket plans to leave Eden Park.
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
While record crowds watch Australia v England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Aotearoa’s biggest city hasn’t hosted test cricket since 2018.
In Metro’s summer issue, @jamesborrowdale.bsky.social analyses the state of the game and our national stadium as Auckland Cricket plans to leave Eden Park.
In Metro’s summer issue, @jamesborrowdale.bsky.social analyses the state of the game and our national stadium as Auckland Cricket plans to leave Eden Park.
Man how good is this Proteas team, looks like a squad that can win anywhere. A lineup that has Maharaj batting 11 doesn't seem fair
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Man how good is this Proteas team, looks like a squad that can win anywhere. A lineup that has Maharaj batting 11 doesn't seem fair
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‘Pressure is a privilege’: Braxton Sorensen-McGee on being New Zealand’s youngest star
‘Pressure is a privilege’: Braxton Sorensen-McGee on being New Zealand’s youngest star
The 18-year-old is one of several prominent young Black Ferns fighting to retain the title and secure New Zealand’s seventh World Cup
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August 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
‘Pressure is a privilege’: Braxton Sorensen-McGee on being New Zealand’s youngest star
spent 4500 words trying to piece together exactly what went wrong with the Indian Panthers thespinoff.co.nz/business/23-...
Unpaid wages and walkouts: the downfall of the NBL’s Indian Panthers
Just nine games into the 2025 NBL season, the Indian Panthers would be suspended from the league following allegations of unpaid player wages. James Borrowdale spoke to the players, owners and league ...
thespinoff.co.nz
July 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
spent 4500 words trying to piece together exactly what went wrong with the Indian Panthers thespinoff.co.nz/business/23-...
can't imagine that a better cat could possibly exist
July 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
can't imagine that a better cat could possibly exist
thirty years since the All Blacks met the Springboks in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. I wrote about the game and its legacy for @thespinoff.bsky.social. thespinoff.co.nz/sports/24-06...
The ghost of 1995: that Rugby World Cup final, 30 years on
Where were you, and what do you remember?
thespinoff.co.nz
June 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
thirty years since the All Blacks met the Springboks in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. I wrote about the game and its legacy for @thespinoff.bsky.social. thespinoff.co.nz/sports/24-06...
Wrote about Auckland City FC and the mountain before them for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Auckland City aiming to do amateur football proud in Bayern Munich mismatch
‘We represent 95% of footballers’ says assistant coach of team of barbers, teachers and students at Club World Cup
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June 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Wrote about Auckland City FC and the mountain before them for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
wrote about ghostwriting in this week's Listener www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
Wagner’s world: Author James Borrowdale on getting into the mindset of Black Cap Neil Wagner
The dynamic between ghostwriter and author has been likened to a counsellor and patient.
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March 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
wrote about ghostwriting in this week's Listener www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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Long, unhurried days with a cooler: the cricket fans sticking with New Zealand’s forgotten format
Long, unhurried days with a cooler: the cricket fans sticking with New Zealand’s forgotten format
In an age dominated by T20, New Zealand’s long-form Plunket Shield is a throwback to another time and retains a small group of committed fans
From the spot where Helen Julius spread her arms across the peeling, sun-flecked green paint of the pavilion’s…
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Long, unhurried days with a cooler: the cricket fans sticking with New Zealand’s forgotten format
in the guardian today, writing about the plunket shield and the handful of fans who stick to it like barnacles
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Long, unhurried days with a cooler: the cricket fans sticking with New Zealand’s forgotten format
In an age dominated by T20, New Zealand’s long-form Plunket Shield is a throwback to another time and retains a small group of committed fans
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:45 AM
in the guardian today, writing about the plunket shield and the handful of fans who stick to it like barnacles
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Little essay from me on the strange, ongoing saga of Tom Phillips, the man who disappeared into bush with his three kids, and its relationship to some of New Zealand's most entrenched mythologies. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3604...
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
November 26, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Little essay from me on the strange, ongoing saga of Tom Phillips, the man who disappeared into bush with his three kids, and its relationship to some of New Zealand's most entrenched mythologies. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3604...
Good to see Neil Wagner's All Out, which I ghosted, climbing the bestseller's list - number four this week. newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/22/t...
This week's bestselling books - November 22
The latest Nielsen BookScan chart of bestselling NZ books, plus win a breathtaking novel
newsroom.co.nz
November 21, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Good to see Neil Wagner's All Out, which I ghosted, climbing the bestseller's list - number four this week. newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/22/t...
the start of the cricket season will always have me feeling nostalgic for my first summer of fatherhood thespinoff.co.nz/the-sunday-e...
The Sunday Essay: Cricket with child
A magic summer shared by a cricket-mad father and his oblivious baby daughter.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 20, 2024 at 8:40 PM
the start of the cricket season will always have me feeling nostalgic for my first summer of fatherhood thespinoff.co.nz/the-sunday-e...
how soothing to watch kane williamson bat against a red ball from one fixed camera angle to the accompaniment of the sirens, construction and birdsong of Hamilton
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_7...
FULL MATCH LIVE COVERAGE Day 1 | Northern Districts v Auckland Aces - Plunket Shield
YouTube video by NZC
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November 19, 2024 at 12:34 AM
how soothing to watch kane williamson bat against a red ball from one fixed camera angle to the accompaniment of the sirens, construction and birdsong of Hamilton
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_7...
maybe i am here, now
November 18, 2024 at 11:29 PM
maybe i am here, now