ANALYSIS North Shore councillor Chris Darby captured the general malaise afflicting infrastructure in this country long before the new Government was formed.
Josie Pagani: Why politics is getting personal - it s tribalism
7 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Donald Trump is the ultimate tribal politician. Photo / AP
NZ Herald
OPINION
The launch of the Climate Change Commission s report was a polite affair. Either everyone s on aboard with the biggest transformation of the economy in history, or criticising it feels risky. A family member who is an NHS nurse in Wales is worried about the cost of lockdown there for her working-class friends, stuck in tiny flats in tower blocks and losing their jobs.
Her brother now thinks she s a right-wing religious zealot. She told me, Politics is splitting our family apart. Why has it got so personal?