Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • New Zealand Listener

    Tiny sighs of relief

    Apr 10, 2022 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    At a time when the daily news diet is one long indictment sheet – New Zealand being shamed and doom-warned by climate-change scientists, economists, pandemic experts and even baristas – it feels superstitiously dangerous to highlight any positive portents.

    But after the twin indignities of New Zealand’s being sacked by health chief Ashley Bloomfield after all it has done for him, and ticked off for disloyalty by yachting autocrat Grant Dalton, it has become an absolute national imperative to look for silver linings.

    Astonishingly, some can be found in the latest telling-off from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from New Zealand Listener

    New Zealand Listener1 min readAncient
    Tuesday June 4
    Ancient history is clearly the coming thing. We turn to a civilisation less ancient than the Neanderthals, more ancient than the Roman Empire. This eight-parter starts in 5000 BC, when the first houses and settlements were built along the Nile. It te
    New Zealand Listener7 min read
    Creating The Wow Factor
    Meg Williams, the chief executive of World of WearableArt – that flamboyant fashion and design spectacle thatispart-theatreand part-circus– is valiantly making a not entirely successful effort to be a bit more WOW-y with her wardrobe. She’s a Welling
    New Zealand Listener2 min read
    Chamber Made
    It’s always an upheaval when a musician leaves their chamber group, but the New Zealand String Quartet seems determined to make the transition as seamless as possible when second violin Monique Lapins vacates her seat for newbie Peter Clark. The bato

    Related Books & Audiobooks