“This is a fabulous chair,” said Ardern, a global progressive icon, plopping down after the brief tour. Watching Ardern on Facebook, her favoured conduit, is a lesson in rhetorical blending: epidemiology brightened with empathy, law leavened with mom jokes. “You need the whole context, the way the political system has evolved,” said Helen Clark, a former prime minister who hired Ardern as an adviser more than a decade ago. In 1965, New Zealand was the world’s sixth-wealthiest country per capita, but by 1980, when Ardern was born, it had slipped to 19th. In her video detailing eased restrictions, Ardern, who did look tired, even in her favourite chair, promised viewers she would stay in touch.

Source: bd News24 May 24, 2020 08:34 UTC