New Zealand
Total 20 Posts
Nothing to see here.
11 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s Brexit analysis on the current state of the UK-EU negotiations, the impossibility of predicting what this ‘government of all the talentless’ will do, and the ironies of the UK’s emerging independent trade policy.
Beijing virus cases sound a warning: Normal may be a fantasy for now.
3 min read
China is issuing a reality check to the world, as South Korea warns against settling into returning to a pre-pandemic normal any time soon.
We need to talk about empire: Britain is being forced to confront its ‘original sin’.
5 min read
Britain must face the uncomfortable truth that, contrary to the “economic theory” that insists meritocracy and mercantile enterprise made the country rich, it actually owes a large part of its wealth to its role in the slave trade.
How the bubble might be a healthful strategy in a pandemic.
2 min read
With no vaccine or cure in sight for this coronavirus, the “bubble” is increasingly seen as a viable health strategy.
Coronavirus: Governments knew a pandemic was a threat – Here is why they weren’t better prepared.
5 min read
Despite all the effort that goes into predicting disasters, governments have been bad at acting on what they were told.
6 countries, 6 curves: How nations that moved fast against COVID-19 avoided disaster.
5 min read
Countries aiming to flatten the coronavirus curve have one crucial aim: reduce the “effective reproduction number” of the virus to below 1. This means the spread is slowing, rather than accelerating.
Three reasons why Jacinda Ardern’s coronavirus response has been a masterclass in crisis leadership.
4 min read
As someone who researches and teaches leadership, I’d argue New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is giving most Western politicians a masterclass in crisis leadership.