Ardern has redefined leadership in an age of hate

There was a row of one, two, three, four coffins laid out on the grass in front of him. One large, three small. The man stood at the end of the row, holding his face in his hands. Each of the coffins contained a member of his family.

His name was Dr Taufiq al-Sattar. It was a Saturday morning in October 2013, in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin. His entire family, his wife and three children, had been wiped out in a house fire in Leicester, England, the previous month.