15 July 2020Uncategorized 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 […]
11 July 2020Uncategorized 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 […]
8 July 2020Uncategorized 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 […]
4 July 2020Uncategorized 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. […]
1 July 2020Uncategorized 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 […]
27 June 2020Uncategorized Reactivity Everyday events are highlighting my post lockdown levels of reactivity. Perhaps an earthquake doesn’t quite count as an every day event (though […]
24 June 2020Uncategorized 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 […]
20 June 2020Uncategorized 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 […]
17 June 2020Uncategorized 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 […]
13 June 2020Uncategorized 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 […]