Freelance journalist & editor, NZ/NL
Freelance journalist & editor, NZ/NL
So, what solutions do you suggest, Sitara?, asked someone after reading my column “The world has always been burning”. This often happens when I try to describe or critique the world and what’s going on – or what’s not going on – from a vantage point of “no-problem”. It’s a good question. It’s not often …
“Alles staat op springen, de wereld staat in brand, er gebeuren zoveel dingen en ze lopen uit de hand“. Ken je dit zinnetje? Het komt uit een liedje van Boudewijn de Groot van wie ik vroeger een langspeelplaat had. Het was eind jaren zeventig, begin jaren tachtig en ik ken de melodie nog. In de …
“Everything’s near collapse, the world is burning, there’s too much going on, the situation is escalating.” This is my clumsy rendering of a sentence by Dutch singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot who is sometimes referred to as “the Dutch Bob Dylan”. I used to listen to one of his records throughout the late seventies and early …
New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown came as a shock to me. I didn’t know democratic governments have the power to tell an entire population to stay home. I’m not complaining, but personally I’m more a proponent of the model used in Sweden. Immediately after the announcement by our prime minister, my employer told me not to …
The cowboys and cowgirls of our era are no longer riding horses in the dust, where the long arm of the law doesn’t reach. They’re undertaking the ego trips of entire nations, riding spaceships, leaving a massive trail of debris in a galaxy untouched by humans not so long ago. The European Space Agency reported …
