New Zealand
Total 21 Posts
What we learned from tracking every COVID policy in the world.
6 min read
For one year, 600 people tracked 20 types of coronavirus restriction in 186 countries – here is what they found out. Exiting the pandemic will require global cooperation.
The Queen’s gambit — New evidence shows how Her Majesty wields influence on legislation.
7 min read
New documents expose a chink in the Queen’s armour of secrecy. She plays a far more politically active role than is publicly known. The Queen’s magic is keeping the real action out of public view, while maintaining the appearance of doing nothing.
10 reasons to feel grateful this Thanksgiving.
5 min read
Despite these testing times, American Thanksgiving (November 26) may be a useful moment to take stock. What should we, as a planet, give thanks for in a year that threw up the depressing new word “doomscrolling”?
Jacinda Ardern and Labour returned in a landslide — 5 experts on a historic New Zealand election.
7 min read
Jacinda Ardern and Labour are returned to power in a landslide, making New Zealand political history in the process.
‘An endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole’: A New Zealand expert on why Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown should cover all of Victoria.
4 min read
Putting all of Victoria under stage 4 restrictions would give the state its best chance of stopping community transmission, rather than setting it up to play an endless game of COVID-19 whack-a-mole.
Nonsense about New Zealand trade deal.
3 min read
What can we sell to New Zealand that we couldn’t before?
Why don’t we hear about the low number of coronavirus deaths in Central Europe?
4 min read
Death rates are low in Central Europe but this has largely gone ignored.