From Comrade to Dame in a New York Minute

Being a socialist and a closet republican didn't prevent former PM Ardern from accepting a damehood and making possibly the fastest transition from comrade to dame that anyone has ever achieved.

They say that a week is a long time in politics and indeed that seems to be truer now than ever. But consider, for a moment, the transformation that our former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made dur…