Life in Lock Down: Day 16 – Bad Friday
April 10: Day 16 of living in lock-down…
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April 10: Day 16 of living in lock-down…
There are many lessons that we have learned so far from the global pandemic. An emerging lesson, one which Auntie Jacinda emphasises every day, is that our own actions, collectively, can make a difference.
April 9: Day 15 of living in lock-down…
WHY ARE THERE so many blokes out there behaving like idiots? (“Idiots” is the Prime Minister’s descriptor, most New Zealanders would, less charitably, call them “dicks”.)
April 8: Day 14 of living in lock-down…
IT PAINS ME to ignore the Prime Minister’s advice, but it’s time to kick some Labour Party butt.
April 7: Day 13 of living in lock-down… and unlucky for those who are superstitious. A day when there was a ray of sunshine from an otherwise bleak day of worrying signs.
The Palestine Solidarity network Aotearoa has renewed its urgent appeal to the government to act in the face of a distress call issued from Gaza’s Ministry of Health to the world to provide laboratory testing materials for Coronaviruus which will run out this evening (today NZ time) at Gaza’s central laboratory.
April 6: Day 12 of living in lock-down…
WHEN MATTHEW HOOTON is able to outflank the “Left” effortlessly on RNZ’s Nine-to-Noon something has gone very seriously wrong.