Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
In the heat of battle
This week, leavened by the eerie dawn services of ANZAC Day and world-war histories redolent with high ideals for a fairer world, we have...
Screeeeech. Crunch!
The New York Second, which has been called the ‘shortest unit of time in the multiverse’, is defined as the period of time between...
Easter, a time for redemption
Easter, with its message of redemption, is perhaps the one festival of the western world’s twenty-first century calendar that still prompts us to a...
The shady adventures of Fiscal Hole
All last week, the trailer for a Fair Go television episode asked, incredulously, how someone could just lose a million dollars.
Three days later, I’m...
Heroes and hucksters
Tuesday’s party political commentary on the front page of the New Zealand Herald as a national daily in the middle of a national human...
Gabrielle – one cyclone to terrify us all
Twelve hours into Sunday’s pre-storm power cut and with an ex-tropical cyclone hurtling down upon us, I finally took down the gleaming brass hurricane...
Hotter, sooner, more extreme
In a fairly news-packed week – redolent as it’s been with tragedy, fear and accumulated doom that’s discombobulating a great many of us –...
The frumious beast
My first reaction to last Thursday’s news that prime minister Jacinda Ardern had resigned was a visceral sense of relief that a vicious war...
Tumultuous year
As we have been reviewing the past, truly extraordinary year in an increasingly bifurcated world, the size of the juggernaut coming down on us...
Hopeful history for Christmas
We are coming to the end of a particularly dismaying year. Does it matter that last weekend, Christopher Luxon was nominated politician of the...
