Reflecting on 2020 | RNZ Summer

Looking back on a year like no other with a critical eye.

One can only dream of a world in which every workday is pants optional

Comedian Jeremy Elwood on what we want to ditch, and what we want to keep after 2020

My sourdough starter is very dead. And the paint by numbers that one of the ladies purchased at the start of lockdown goes unopened. But our Power Lady sessions endure

During lockdown, Brigitte Morten and her friends found solace in zoom calls. And then it taught them about friendship

I spent my days doing what I had always done - the barest minimum. I tackled my boredom by marinating in that boredom

Lamia Imam reflects on the boredeom of 2020, and hopes for some joy in the new year

It’s never been a more perfect time to randomly select an era to embody, right when we’re all too guilty to make our wardrobes completely newly made…

2020 has made many of us think about out choices — life AND fashion

New Zealand still remains one of the most spaced-out countries (in several ways) around the world. Take a book, a portable speaker, or something that highlights your referendum choice, and go enjoy some kiwi green…

So, 2020 is almost over. Now what?

For all the blanket slogans to try and unite our country — the empirical truth is that we are simply not all in this ‘waka’ together

2020 was the year of the slogan, writes Leah Damm. But did we follow them?

My resolution for 2021 is that if I find myself unable to join the effort to make things better, whatever the reason, I’ll make way for those who can

What is leadership going to look like in 2021?

Perhaps, too, in those months of social isolation, I just wanted to see people touch each other, kiss each other on the cheek, go out for a meal and a drink, and have ordinary problems.

It was mid-April in lockdown when Michele A’Court realised her tastes in what she wanted to watch and read had changed.