This is edition 2025/176 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
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1. Jacinda Ardern
Matua Kahurangi
- 🎥 Jacinda Ardern returned to the spotlight with a new documentary Prime Minister and a children’s book Mum’s Busy Work.
- 📚 The book title feels ironic, echoing critics’ view of her leadership as “busywork” with little value.
- 😡 Public hatred toward Ardern remains intense, with social media flooded by vitriol and extreme accusations.
- ⚖️ Critics from both left and right demand accountability, with some calling for legal consequences over her pandemic response.
- 🏝️ Ardern is effectively living in exile, unwelcome and unsafe in her own country despite her global acclaim.
- 📰 Media outlets that once benefited from government funding still shield her, often closing comment sections on stories.
- 🔥 Carefully polished media coverage seems to backfire, fueling even deeper hostility among her critics.
- 🌍 While celebrated internationally, in New Zealand she is viewed with suspicion, anger, and outright hatred.
- 🚷 Her enduring “sentence” is exile from the people she once governed, with little chance of reconciliation at home.
