Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
Choosing our path
Election 2020 will go down in history either way, but team five million is taking a fairly overwhelming hit as we stagger to reclaim...
Groundhog day
On Tuesday, the Guardian reported our much-admired director general of health taking a Covid-19 test to show us that those long swabs and spine...
Keeping the team together
Personally, I’m still batting for Jacinda’s Team of Five Million and her political leitmotif of kindness that continues to have us at the centre...
Alternate realities
Mark Zuckerberg has recently looked more like an outraged Roman emperor with cities burning around him than the familiar, boyish wunderkind who founded Facebook,...
The revolution is here
To an observer – a space station crew or author brewing a dystopian novel, for example – it must have been an astonishing sight.
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Reclaiming our humanity
It’s been a long time since those of us who worry about these things have had any certainty that the human race will be...
Joining the dots
This week Google intuited that I need a Vegepod – pram-like structures on legs, complete with hood and draped muslin, in which every member...
What are you waiting for?
We have had 10,000 years of planetary stability since the last glacial period to become the new anthropocene species but we live and may...
Getting over tourism
This is the time in every golden summer when we again hail the sight of familiar faces in the street and bond in shared...
Leaders take their people with them
It’s hard not to feel, as Waiheke comes to seething point with overweening city ambitions to rewrite everything from our city doorstep and bus...