"No parliament is bound by the prior." Is this true, though? What happens when we want to exit some onerous international treaty or contract which the previous administration has committed us to?
Yep.
I think if you take the religions out of it and substitute toxic masculinity, it all starts to make a lot more sense. The former, in all their manifestations, may have begun with benign intentions, but sooner or later they all get corrupted and turned to ...
While on the subject of site admin: in the last two days, clicking on the headline of various articles has taken me straight to the "Leave A Comment" box. No biggie (one can always scroll up), but thought I'd mention it.
I'm starting to think the real problem is not the understandable anger of the people to whom "hate speech" is allegedly directed, but the rent-a-minders who are only too eager to get angry on their behalf, and who believe they're doing something righteous,...
Sounds as though no-one should have any truck with this lot (they're operating in NZ, so be warned - not that many on this forum are likely to be clients). https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/10/im-a-victim-of-scammers-but-revolut-says-no-to-a-...
Sounds as though too many people knew what was going on, and some were busy hatching plans even as those deliveries were being made.
See recent comments about that Bill in yesterday's Daily Review. The Greens were genuine, and good on them, but those other two parties were just being cynical poseurs.
"Glad to do me friends a favour, doesn't cost me to be nice. But nothing gets you nothing, everything has got a little price." I have to admit the same suspicions were aroused in me before I'd even finished reading the OP. They can pose as righteous folk ...
Unlikely to stop "Hogsbreath" doing it again some time.
Well there's one spot of good news in all this darkness: Reality Check Radio is off the air and having to rattle the old begging-bowls (you'll need to scroll down a fair bit): https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350239818/live-tvnz-officially-cancels-fair-go-...
I believe body-shape has to come into it somewhere. No-one who went through puberty as a male and/or still has functional male genitals should be allowed to colonise spaces reserved for cis-women, against the occupants' will. No male-bodied people in ...
Was the chocolate ration increased to 20 grammes, or reduced from 30 grammes to 20? Who would be able to tell?
Yes, of course we have all those possible actions, but how do you get a largely ignorant populace to see the need for them? The current socio-political climate (pun unavoidable) makes it impossible to deploy them. Measures on that scale, with the ...
They should ban protium hydroxide - it's well known to be capable of dissolving more stuff than any other solvent.
Why stop at Ministers' and MPs' salaries? Reduce the number of MPs! (Wasn't there a referendum one time, with a thumping majority in favour of doing just that?) And why don't we forget the absurd fiction that Cabinet has to number 20-odd? Everyone knows ...
Whose economy?
Absolutely. Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II is a perfect demonstration. Brutus gives a closely-reasoned academic analysis of why he and his band believed it necessary to assassinate JC. Antony responds with a shameless appeal to the emotions and baser ...
" .... when it starts to seriously affect them will be demanding that 'something be done about it'" By, of course, that government that they're usually so anxious to banish from their lives.
I haven't the time to trawl through all the material available on the site that Alwyn has linked to, but what I have seen suggests there's little or nothing there that supports Adrian's contentions.
Me too. Try and hit too many targets, you're liable to miss most if not all of them. A relatively small but dedicated group of activists who are focused on a tiny number of objectives (or preferably just one) are always going to achieve more than a flabby ...
Whatever helps get rid of Plastic Man.
The AA mag has long been a total waste of trees and china clay (used to make those glossy pages). I wish they'd make it optional in return for a reduction in the sub. Obtrectatrix once sent them a draft article detailing the trouble we'd had contesting an ...
Looks like Wellington, end of Willis Street leading up to junction with Lambton Quay at what used to be called Stewart Dawson's Corner.
Fact is, it's becoming harder to dispose of unwanted books, as Obtrectatrix and I have been finding lately. Fewer people are wanting them; the second-hand bookshop we used to sell to is no longer paying cash to replenish its stock (swaps only now); even op...
The link to the Telegraph story doesn't seem to be working properly, but I was able to look it up via Duckduckgo. I stand with Roz. How in hell did that "Whadareya" character get to be appointed to that sort of position? Cis- and trans-women have to have ...
Some heartening news (for once) from Turkey: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/31/turkey-local-elections-istanbul-mayor-ekrem-imamoglu-recep-tayyip-erdogan
Another example of thoughtlessly uttering a politically and culturally loaded phrase, without understanding the context. (C/f recent uses of "from the river to the sea".)
I don't see how real estate capital gains generate wealth. They're just a mechanism for redistributing it.
Same here, Jilly. Always have it in coffee, though - way better than cow's.
Slightly higher even than that! For a few years in the 1970s, the top rate for investment income over UKP20,000 was 98% (83% for income of any sort, plus a 15% surcharge on the investment part). Equates to 19s 7d in old money.
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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