Tag: Liz Waters Editorial
The intelligent ingredient is a fairer society
Earth’s orbiting International Space Station is about the same size as a six-bedroom house, the Guardian said in a mind-shaping feature earlier this month....
Important fun
I found myself handing out the honours for Waiheke’s fastest business-house trolley at the Great Gulf News Trolley Derby last Sunday, and was suddenly aware...
Enough already
A year and more into October’s tawdry election lead-up, it’s hard to stomach the daily cacophony of polls and hypocritical bickering that’s passing for...
Bread and circuses
Viewing this last week as a snapshot in time, we now seem near-fatally disconnected from common sense history – human kindness being an early...
Is there no decorum?
Auckland Council officials have prevailed. We’ve had the noise and fury of our profligate city council flailing round to produce a balanced financial budget...
No wonder we are hurting
After nearly six years and a spectacular Labour win three years ago, there is something horribly wrong with our current political discourse. The attack...
The great unease
It doesn’t pay to speculate on the future of the human race at this point in history. The knife-balance future is unknowable and it’s...
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...