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Looking back, I think that we now have to consider this period the phony war. While it seemed at the time that cases were raging, and there were many deaths, the numbers have been dwarfed already by the second wave.
So here’s what’s going to happen. Assuming there’s not some sudden eleventh hour reversal with the count … the Trumps and the Trump wing of the Republican Party are going to find themselves escalatingly high-and-dry with regard to the rest of their own party.
New Zealand will today discover if the cannabis referendum passed or not. But in either case, we should chart a new course that is more broadly supported.
Appointing Nanaia Mahuta as Foreign Minister and Peeni Henare in Defence is a welcome relief and brings fresh pairs of eyes to long-neglected issues.
A “Pathways to Residency” petition has been launched on Action Station for “normally resident migrant workers who have made New Zealand their home and deserve a place of sanctuary in today’s post-Covid world.”
OH, THE IRONY! The NZ Supreme Court has further cleared the path for Kim Dotcom’s extradition on the very same day Joe Biden is predicted to become the 46th President-elect of the United States.
More broadly, many have accused Jacinda of that thing-now-known-as-virtue-signalling (I am not sure it even had a name before) for putting lots of the above diverse persons into cabinet, rather than promoting on ‘skill’, a slithy concept if ever I heard one.
Mile’s Law says where you stand, depends on where you sit.
I moved to New Zealand as a sixteen year old in the 1970s, with my then boyfriend, who became my…
JACINDA ARDERN has constructed a Curate’s Egg* Cabinet: parts of it are excellent.