A READER has drawn it to my attention that the evidence is uncertain, at best, that former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made a personal don...
SANCTIFYING JACINDA ARDERN
The new documentary Prime Minister is another step in the mythologising of Jacinda Ardern's political legacy. While she is being portr...
YESTERDAY'S PEOPLE, FIGHTING YESTERDAY'S WAR
David Cohen’s unauthorised biography of Jacinda Ardern has done exactly what her critics wanted: it’s given them another opportunity to fi...
ARDERN ON GAZA: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?
Jacinda Ardern has finally had something to say about Gaza. TWO YEARS after Israel began its barbaric assault on Gaza, former New Zealand...
A DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER, OR JUST MORE OF THE SAME?
Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is suddenly in the New Zealand media again. IN RECENT DAYS Phil Goff has been both passionate and fort...
JACINDA ARDERN: REHEATED CENTRISM FOR AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE
Although she failed to bring about the fundamental economic and political change that she promised for New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern has been ...
ARE LABOUR ON THE WAY OUT?
Labour has slumped in the latest Talbot Mills poll. Talbot Mills suggest that 'after a long period of very close results, we may now be ...
'DON'T CONFUSE HONOURS WITH ACHIEVEMENT'
Jacinda Ardern's enthusiasm for so-called 'decolonisation' was not enough to make her turn down a damehood. THERE WAS next to no...
SANNA MARIN AND JACINDA ARDERN : THE FAILURE OF CENTRISM
In November last year Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin visited New Zealand and held talks with Prime minister Jacinda Ardern. Now, s...
WHAT IS THE POINT OF CHRIS HIPKINS?
If Jacinda Ardern baulked at implementing a plan of real change then why should we expect it from someone regarded as more conservative than...
A WORKING CLASS HERO IS SOMETHING TO BE
Has Labour under Chris Hipkins really rediscovered the working class? Is its efforts to distance itself from Jacinda Ardern's middle cla...
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF JACINDA ARDERN?
' Despite being hailed as the harbinger of a new, progressive Left, Ardern simply turned out to be more of the same.' Tom Chodor s...
A SUPPORTER OF JACINDA ARDERN DESCRIBED JOHN KEY AS 'A REPUGNANT HUMAN BEING'
In 2016 another Prime Minister was described as 'dreadful and deformed'... IN FEBRUARY 2016 the right wing commentator Cameron '...
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH...
Jacinda Ardern has decided she doesn't want to be Prime Minister anymore... IT WAS JUST last month that the Roy Morgan poll had Labour o...
JACINDA ARDERN : THE VICTIM OF 'MISOGYNISTIC ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS'?
Massey University lecturer Suze Wilson thinks the criticisms of Jacinda Ardern are misogynistic. And we all thought the criticisms of her ar...
LABOUR : SLOUCHING TO ELECTION DEFEAT
As we approach 2023, Labour is looking at its last year in office... THE POLITICIANS head off on their summer holidays next week and for man...
CENTRIST POLICIES CAN'T SOLVE THE ECONOMIC MALAISE
The cost of living crisis has highlighted that the free market model is irretrievably broken - but our present parliamentary parties continu...