Jacinda Ardern’s unexamined life

Jacinda Ardern’s unexamined life

For 24 days in February 2022 protesters occupied the grounds of New Zealand’s parliament. They were mimicking the trucker “Freedom Convoy” that had ground Canada’s capital city to a standstill earlier that year in defiance over Covid-19 vaccine mandates. In Wellington, protesters were outraged about New Zealand’s own vaccine mandate, but there was also palpable rage over “masks, the media, the UN, communism and the government”, recalls Jacinda A…