• In every generation. UNIHRD 2024

    January 31, 2024

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    Last Saturday was the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day (UNIHRD). As a board member of New Zealand’s Holocaust Centre, and the son of a survivor of the camps, I was asked to speak at the Christchurch event. This…

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  • Baking and architecture…

    January 24, 2024

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    As I sat down to a slice of toast this morning, I got thinking about our recent European sojourn. You see my wife and I just returned from a month of road-tripping around Europe, in particular Eastern Europe. The…

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  • About that “wisdom comes with age” thing…

    January 17, 2024

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    A few months ago, I attended a function and happened to be sitting next to a very nice elderly man. Nothing particularly noteworthy in that, but bear with me. Said individual had a long and distinguished legal career before…

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  • In defense of the hippy kids…

    January 10, 2024

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    I like to confuse people. Being enigmatic is my modus operandi of choice. Being the worst-dressed traveler in the Koru Lounge is a given for me, as is being the most under-qualified individual around pretty much every board table…

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  • Revolution or Reformation?

    January 3, 2024

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    I have a mind that is very rarely at rest. It’s a standing joke amongst my family but when I run, I often compose speeches in my head. I’ve written and re-written 21st birthday speeches for my sons, their…

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  • Coca-Cola, sugar tax and gentle persuasion

    December 27, 2023

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    I’ve got a slightly secret, horrendously unhealthy and largely inexplicable addiction to Coke. Not the stuff you inhale through your nose, mind, but rather the sugary water stuff. I manage to limit my consumption to times when I’ve had…

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  • What can the future for Gaza be?

    December 18, 2023

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    A couple of weeks ago I attended a private media briefing at the Israeli Embassy in Wellington where select New Zealand journalists were allowed to watch footage captured from the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel. The footage came…

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  • TikTok a threat to the very foundations of society

    December 13, 2023

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    While in Las Vegas recently, I spent a little bit of time at Caesars Palace. Like everything in Vegas, Caesars is an oversized and tacky remake of something far more grand – in this case ancient Rome. Perhaps it…

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  • Elon may be great, but is he the sort of human being we really want?

    December 6, 2023

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    I spent last week in Las Vegas attending a technology event that I go to every year. Now Las Vegas is absolutely the city of my nightmares and it certainly hasn’t improved in the 12 months since I was…

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  • AI and the changing world

    November 29, 2023

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    The other day we celebrated my youngest son’s 21st birthday. As is customary for me, the speech was written in my head while out for a run. My family jokes about both the fact that I write speeches years…

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