Reflections on small kindnesses, resort life and capitalism’s pros and cons after a week in Fiji
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From frustration in then UK to vacuousness in the US: Travelling a disgruntled world
The chaos of Boris Johnson, the vacuous response to US gun violence, Harry and Megan’s family size, and the surge of Andrew Yang… overseasia is a curious place right now
Read MoreA very MMP election... & a manicured mandate
After a wee holiday, some thoughts on how the new government should play its hand... and reflections on some good decisions that laid the ground for the 'coalition of losers'
Read MoreInside the Papua New Guinea election
Getting to know our Pacific neighbour is increasingly important if we want to take a meaningful role in our own regional backyard
Read MoreParis, the conclusion: climate changer or puff pastry?
After the applause has died down, will the Paris Agreement do enough to keep global temperatures down, fund emission reductions in developing countries and hold nations to account?
Read MoreLetter from Paris: How ministers need to lift their game in week 2
In his second post from Paris, Barry Coates says the current deal before ministers is not good enough to keep temperature increases below 2 degrees and spells out what's missing
Read MoreLetter from Paris: Trust & ambition in week 1
Long-time climate campaigner and Green candidate Barry Coates writes from negotiations at Paris to explain NZ's role and what's really happening behind the scenes
Read MoreNorway's terror - Lessons learned?
Left- and right-wing politicians and commentators in Europe are grappling with the lessons to be learned from the terrorist attack in Norway -- and what it means for debate about immigration.
Read MoreSyrian Slaughter in the Arab Spring
From Jordan, Jane writes: The Arab Spring turned far more murderous, leaving the West, as well as Arab neighbours, to do little but talk while Bashar the Butcher gets on with his slaughter
Read MoreSeeing the Forest for the Trees
An examination of the strange suggestion, spread by the Green Party, that our native ecosystems are at a greater risk than those of any other country on Earth except for Burma.
Read MoreTalking about a new generation
Ed Miliband has given fresh energy to UK Labour in opposition. Should NZ Labour be looking for something similar?
Read MoreThe Happiest Writer on Pundit
David Young is happier even than Sue Bradford and Deborah Coddington were to leave parliament. More satisfied than Nicky Hager was when Don Brash stepped down. He is chirpier even than… Tim Watkin.
Read MoreThe other news from Europe
The drama in London this week meant that the Euro-zone crisis received relatively little coverage or commentary. It's big news – and what happens next could be even bigger.
Read MoreDispatch from Copenhagen
What's Fun about a Summit to Solve Global Warming?
Read MoreHow not to sell your nation to tourists
And you thought John Key's bit on Letterman was a sad attempt at scaring up tourists. In Denmark the state tourism organisation filmed a fake YouTube appeal in which a hot Dane woman admitted her fling with a foreign visitor produced a child
Read MoreRemember Hans Kupka: Waikato's new nazi controversy
The case of a "Holocaust Denier on Campus" offered Waikato University some important, difficult lessons. Did it take them onboard?
Read MoreGreenland gets Warmer - But Not Greener
Melting ice provides Greenland with an economic lifeline. Should it grab hold?
Read MoreRecieving spelling lessons from British freinds
Education bureaucrats want to dump the only spelling rule that I can remember
Read MoreIt's no Eurovision, but it kind of matters
And the winner is... It's time for the results of elections affecting 491 million people. Should anyone in NZ care?
Read MoreHavana good time... but what next for Cuba?
Fidel Castro has survived many US Presidents, and a trip to Cuba suggests he may outlive the Cold War as well as Obama re-thinks 50 years of failed sanctions
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