An Emmy & The Rage of the Few I learned of it before the house had woken. Autumn comes early to Palmerston North, and at that hour the light is the colour of weak tea, sliding low across the Manawatลซ. The dogs had not stirred. I was holding a phone, which is a foolish way to receive good news, and there it was. Prime Minister , the documentary about Dame the Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern, had taken the Emmy for best documentary. I have watched the film three times. It breaks me in the same place each time, and each time I let it, because some things are worth being broken by. I came to this country in 2017. I was Provost Chair Professor and Head of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, and there were other offers in front of me, the kind that arrive on heavy letterhead and measure a man by his salary band and his citation count. I turned them down for a cluster of islands at the bottom of the world. I did it because of a promise I had heard in the w...
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