Our heroes
Todd Muller, ex-man of the week, has not been one of my heroes. He probably hasn’t been leader of his party long […]
Tag: coronavirus
Elastic people?
I was pondering as to the degree of behavioural elasticity people have demonstrated throughout COVID-19 changes in New Zealand. People are frequently […]
Politics & people
It goes without saying that politics is fraught with people; my thinking on this has been driven by yesterday’s political fiasco around […]
Fool’s Paradise?
COVID news of this week was that three eminent New Zealanders think we should reopen the border and abandon our elimination strategy. […]
Letters from Paradise
20 June 2022 Dearest Lou Here I am finally, in New Zealand, very relieved to be here. As you know, we got […]
Reactivity
Everyday events are highlighting my post lockdown levels of reactivity. Perhaps an earthquake doesn’t quite count as an every day event (though […]
Live for today, plan for tomorrow
There are many ways COVID-19 has affected the trajectories of people’s lives. One way is that a whole lot of people have […]
Conspiracies in the corners
My brain took a loose turn this week when considering the New Zealand quarantine issues… There’s an election in New Zealand in […]
Limits to compassion
I, like many other New Zealanders, was pretty unhappy to hear yesterday about two new cases of COVID-19 in the country. It […]
Saving & fighting
We are subject to a constant barrage of war analogies, particularly in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing in […]