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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/470745/rest-of-the-world-has-moved-on-from-covid-19-christoper-luxon-says
Is that so? Downwards and horizontal perhaps? Chronically ill? And not trusting anything including politicians, lost in a sea of conjecture and vituperation. We’re all at sea really and Luxon will set his compass to take us to dry land, a safe island away from reality. How nice.
Interesting RadioNZ.
Great woman Dr Carol Shand working for women’s health. Thank you to all the good medicos who care and carry on caring through times of ‘rebellions of ignorance’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018849119/dr-carol-shand-5-decades-championing-women-s-health
Reddit – background – is it good, okay, lacking?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018849124/business-commentator-rebecca-stevenson
Reviewer said this author is good to read and gets the gen on things we’re interested in knowing.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018849121/
book-review-rogues 4.44m
From Nine To Noon, 10:35 am today
Kiran Dass reviews Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
To get anything in text I had to go to internet and Penguin.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue.
Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst,” among other bravura works of literary journalism.
The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface “They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.”
About Patrick Radden Keefe
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle… More about Patrick Radden Keefe
“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it … he’s a national treasure.” —Rachel Maddow
“Patrick Radden Keefe is a brilliant writer, and each of these pieces reminds you that this world and the people in it are more interesting, complicated and moving than you had allowed yourself to imagine. ROGUES is a marvel, showcasing the work of a reporter at the absolute top of his game.” —Daniel Alarcón, author of The King is Always Above the People
Cawthron lecture streaming tonight Tuesday 13 July 5.30 pm :
Bronwyn Hayward to deliver climate focused keynote –
https://www.cawthron.org.nz/annual-lecture/
79th Annual Thomas Cawthron Memorial Lecture
Live-streaming here (www.cawthron.org.nz/annual-lecture) from 5.30-7.00pm on Wednesday 13 July 2022.
Prof Bronwyn Hayward to deliver climate focused keynote …
https://www.cawthron.org.nz › our-news › 2022-thoma…
21/06/2022 — Climate change will be the focus of the 2022 Annual Thomas Cawthron Memorial Lecture, as Cawthron Institute announced today that
Bronwyn Mary Hayward MNZM is a New Zealand political scientist. Her areas of research are democracy, sustainability and young people. She was a lead author on a United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report. Wikipedia
Just tried to join Kiwiblog to fight reactionaries head on rather than these nitwit people here. Not straightforward. From hearing David Farrar on RNZ 4 pm prog recently he’s rather burnt by his support of Republicans who turned out to be Fascists. Carries on with his herding of our local old tired men angry at everything. Why they get more messages than the Left. And so much of our talk is mixed in that slew. Old men and ideas tend to slight our social democracy facing reality. Reactionise off.
Why don’t I have much regard for the people’s blogs? My contrarian anti-authoritarian Right siblings are disgusted by rulers who aren’t perfect. Maybe I share that a bit or … The Left is always a little crazy and they’ve done so much for non-rich people. I wish for more authority for the people. Lyn Prentice, Chris
Trotter or Martyn whatever. I wish there was a better talker for our right point of view.