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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Inside New Zealand’s Ardern of Eden

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Are progressives right to get so excited about Jacinda Ardern? She’s won admiration for her handling of the COVID crisis and the massacre in a Christchurch mosque – and for crushing New Zealand’s equivalent of Ukip. Toby Manhire, editor of The Spin-Off in NZ and former Guardian comment editor, joins us from Auckland to explain what New Zealand has got right and wrong – and what Britain can learn from Ardern’s “relentlessly positive” Kiwi revolution.  Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.8

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I loved going to college.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to a new bunker daily I'm Ros Taylor.

1:11.6

It's a very very long way away from the UK, and I'm not just talking about the mileage.

1:18.0

New Zealand ended social distancing for the second time on 8th of October.

1:22.0

The country had declared itself COVID-free in June but clamped down again after a small outbreak.

1:26.8

And last weekend it had elections which Jacinda Arden's Labour Party won with pretty much a landslide. My WhatsApp was pinging with excitement on Saturday

1:36.0

morning, but can Arden keep her momentum going or are their pitfalls ahead? With me to talk about

1:42.3

what New Zealand has got right and wrong is Toby Manhire, editor of the

1:46.8

spin-off and freelance journalist there. He grew up in New Zealand but came to the UK for a while,

1:52.1

editing the Guardian's comment section before returning home in 2010.

1:56.0

Welcome to the bunker, Toby.

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