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Listen: 'The problem is that the politicians of today, they want to help themselves'.

Irish-turned-Kiwi broadcaster’s memoir recalls a mother of tears and beers. 

Fields of bitter fruit: The true toll of wartime crisis and stress 24 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 6 minutes to read Anzac soldiers marching to the front in France during the First World War. Photo / Getty Images Anzac soldiers marching to the front in France during the First World War. Photo / Getty Images By: Christopher Pugsley Broken or whole, can still be reticent; They do not wear that face we are discerning As in a mirror momentarily lent, A glitter that might be pride, an ashy glow That could be pity, if the shapes would show. – Allen Curnow, "Attitudes for a New Zealand Poet II"

Jacinda and Grant are heroic when it comes to big calls in the midst of crisis, but when it comes to actual progressive reform, they are as Bernard Hickey points out, still peddling tinkering rather than transformative change… The global response to Covid-19 has turbo-charged this doom loop with over US$26tn of fresh government spending and central bank money printing, most of which went directly to corporates and asset owners in the form of grants, much higher asset prices and lower borrowing costs. The numbers are just as obvious here. The Reserve Bank has printed just over $52bn to lo...