• On Brexit, Trump and New Zealand’s future

     

    It’s been an interesting few days and the general consensus among people I have talked to is an air of incredulity and despair. Brexit was worrying and surprising enough, Trump is, to borrow the hipster parlance, next level crazy.…

  • Taking a leaf from the Scandinavian book

     

    As we (and by we I mean me, obviously) get older, our once razor-sharp vision tends to blur a little and where once we saw the world with crisp edges, things take on a softer focus. This change isn’t…

  • Don’t let Covid take us back to the past

     

    My parents were refugees to New Zealand 60-odd years ago. New Zealand was a very different place back then – back when pubs closed at 6pm, everyone still called England “home” and the standard fare was mutton and boiled…