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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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No mention of Bill English’s comments on The Daily Blog? Thought Bomber would be all over this like a rash. Instead we get crickets chirping.
millsy, to be fair the waatea news segment wouldn’t just produce itself let alone the articles that are written.
not what i would call chirping crickets.
Greenland sees early ice sheet melt
Have a look at this Draco the graph of Ice melt for 2016 is mind blowing!
Not to be out done Antarctica is melting too!
I recall an article I read a couple of years ago that posited the west antarctic ice shelf had collapsed in a matter of months some hundreds of thousands years ago….I have hunted and been unable to re-find the article, but recall it was quoting a couple of UK scientists from a recent expedition.
‘Helicopter money’ – why economists are now thinking the unthinkable
We could call this ‘helicopter money’ a UBI.
UK Labour leads Tories by 3 points in latest YouGov Poll for The Times.
Recent YouGovs…………………….Lead
Latest (11-12 April 2016) ……..Labour by 3
March 2016………………………….Labour by 1
Late Feb 2016………………………Tories by 7
Early Feb 2016……………………..Tories by 10
January 2016………………………..Tories by 9
December 2015……………………Tories by 10
Late Nov 2015………………………Tories by 11
Mid Nov 2015……………………….Tories by 9
Just in time for the all-important UK May Local body Elections … Blairites / Brownites and a whole swathe of the British Establishment hoping to see the Corbyn-led Party do particularly badly.
Corbyn got lucky with all the third-way Muppets walking.
When labour wipe the floor in the local body elections, I think we can safely call time on the idiocy call third-way. Third-way politics is what you get when you have sociologist not willing to have a life when they are undergraduates.
Third way types like Shearer and Pagani aren’t going anywhere. Between them and the careerists, Labour ain’t going anywhere.
The left could sure do with some hope right now.
It’s been a depressing decade.