Jacinda Ardern

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | Jacinda Ardern

Book reviewA Different Kind of PowerBy Jacinda ArdernPublished by Macmillan, £25Against the backdrop of the braggadocio and threats that permeate today’s political discourse, former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern uses her new memoir to make a clear and compelling case for compassion.

3 weeks ago | visao.pt | Jacinda Ardern

A tomada de possePoderia contar-vos sobre a minha tomada de posse. Poderia falar-vos do vestido que usei, um modelo até aos joelhos em tons de vermelho e azul, feito de brocado. Ou do autocarro em que viajei com os ministros recém-empossados, pessoas que já pareciam família, desde a pequena cerimónia com o governador-geral na Casa do Governo até ao Parlamento.

3 weeks ago | oprahdaily.com | Jacinda Ardern

We were in the middle of an election year, 2017, when I found myself with the flu. I’d been in bed for days feeling weak and sorry for myself. I had been drifting in and out of sleep when I grabbed my phone. What time is it anyway? Ten thirty in the morning. That’s when the text came in. A journalist. Are you free? I drummed out a quick reply. I am sick. A beat, then her response. How sick? I told her it was the in-bed-for-days kind of sick, then added, Man flu. What’s up?

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jacinda Ardern

Seventy-two hours after our daughter, Neve, was born, Clarke and I held a press conference to introduce her to the world. We planned the whole thing before I gave birth, and I’d been sure it would be fine. Kate Middleton did it, I’d thought. I can make it work. Now that I’d just given birth, it did not feel fine. I had spent most of the waking hours since Neve arrived just staring at her, the way new parents do. For so long, I had waited and worried, and now she was here. I was relieved and elated.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jacinda Ardern

By Jacinda Ardern June 3, 2025 — 9.47am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It was a standard bathroom. The kind you’d find in a 1950s timber home just about anywhere in New Zealand, with a dark linoleum floor and small handbasin – enough of a bowl to wash your hands, but not enough to contain all the water while you do it. I had pulled the lid down over the toilet and was sitting on top of the hard plastic. Waiting.