Columns for Newsroom, the New Zealand news site, since 2018.
Last Wednesday, at 9.46am, an email reached the Berlin office of Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading news magazine.
When I first visited Sydney in 1999, what struck me most were the cranes.
Donald Trump’s second term has given Europe one fight after another.
I do not often write columns that I later come to regret.
It does not happen often that I set my alarm to just before 4am to watch the results from a provincial election in Germany.
I have always liked Iceland. My first visit was on a cruise ship in the mid-1990s.
Drones near airports, at least in New Zealand, are usually a nuisance rather than a threat.
Ask a well-informed European to name the Council of Europe’s constitutional advisory body, and you will usually get a pause.
When France celebrates its national holiday today, it will look much the same as always.
We have a new colleague at The New Zealand Initiative.
© Dr Oliver Hartwich