Bernard Hickey covers mis- and disinformation in our carbon trading market, NZ Big Farma spend on distraction and deflection, and the real cost of ignoring climate change. 'In other news, a new study from the EDHEC- Risk Climate Impact Institute shows that...
Frazer Barton, lawyer and former Board member of Presbyterian Support Otago gave some ambiguous advice to their CEO in 2018 about destruction of records, which was used by PSO to illegally destroy records before the Commission on Abuse in State and Church ...
Starmer has already put the boot into his own left-wing MPs. "... seven Labour MPs who voted for a Scottish National party (SNP) amendment to end the two-child benefit limit were suspended from the party for 6 months." The 2-child cap limits government ...
One quote I have heard is "you can't use punishment to treat trauma", where many of the kids causing problems have big problems themselves. The cost per person of the bootcamps applied to wrap-round support for the kids involved and their families would ...
Big Hairy News talk with Ayesha Verrall, over Coalition's Health approach, first 15 min.
Ryan's interview with US correspondent Simon Marks this morning gives a great potted summary of likely next steps. One point Marks makes is that Biden gained support in the Democratic Party for 2020 by promising to be a 'transitional' president, the ...
The UK anti-protest legislation introduced under Rishi Sunak was drafted by oil-funded think tank. Very similar to much of the recently-introduced legislation here. I bet you it wasn't lovingly handcrafted by National Policy wonks, but rather came almost ...
Maybe the pumping of billions and billions into social media and commentators on Fox News to create a spirit of perpetual outrage, by self-interested kleptocracies in US and elsewhere has had a great deal in shaping the narrative.
"Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and ...
This is why focusing on building respect for each other is critical in the next generation, and why attacks on the well-thought out sex and relationship curriculum developed over the past decade are so damaging to our future. Teaching children about body ...
These are not science articles, but letters to the editor, and therefore opinion pieces. And 2. Kind of you to include the measured response to the two anti letters, which takes apart the ideas they push. Basically, they make false equivalence by applying...
Update: ministerial group advises KiwiRail no longer run ferries. Ah, let's parcel it out to some overseas company...
For those who complain about Hipkins soft approach to the government, he sure rips into the flimsy government three-page 'climate strategy'.
How is it hypocricy? Just because it's on the books, doesn't mean the Greens need to use it. You point out yourself good political reasons why the Nats and Labour decided not to use it. The Greens are just as entitled to weigh up the pros and cons of using...
From bleating about transparency in government when in opposition, somehow it doesn't matter when you're in charge. NZF associate minister Costello is forced by Ombudsman to apologise for hiding info on the development of smoking policy.
As well as to override with noise the bad publicity of having a Destiny youth pastor charged last month with sex abuse of youths.
Guardian reports significant shift in UK govt's position on Israel-Gaza conflict. This includes halt to a UK challenge on ICC's right to prosecute in Palestnian territories, a delaying tactic secretly filed by Sunak's government in June; a review of the ...
Sure, the UK is not a racist nation, except in real world outcomes like eg, employment: According to UK government stats 2023 "Persistent ethnic inequalities in the labour market can play a major part in the high poverty rates among ethnic minority groups...
See https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2024/07/how-britain-voted-and-why-my-post-vote-poll/ for motivations explained.
Islamophobia is a type of racism in the UK
When Willis talks about delivering for those 'who SUPPORTED us' her words, she doesn't mean those who 'ELECTED us'. She means those who PAID FOR OUR ELECTION'.
Scotland has its own devolved 5-y parliament with an SNP majority still, that sets social spending and will have the most impact on day-to-day experience of Scots. Next election in 2 years, with a 2 vote electorate + list, voting age of 16. The SNP in the ...
Democracy in action.
Gosh, that's a big stretch. Starmer is married to a British Jew with family in Israel, which explains the vehemence of his initial response in supporting Israel's attacks aginst civilians in Gaza. Maybe the point Starmer was making a more general one about...
Not a nationalist ideology in a colonised country like ours with an indigenous minority, but a colonist mindset. Whities are mighty by righty.
By the way, Ashcroft is an entrepreneur and has been 'donor' to assorted 'pro-business' parties in Bermuda, the UK and Oz. But the data in his survey doesn't seem biased, and gives a great perspective on voter motivation
And my final post on UK's election: Lord Ashcroft's post-voting survey of 16,000 UK voters. It canvases why voters voted the way they did, when they made their choice, and drills into the reasons and longevity of a change in Party support. Fascinating, and...
I think peferential voting is a crap system, less reflective of people's primary choice than ours. NZers can vote for both their local representative AND party preference, rewarding those MPs who care for their electorate, while supporting political ...
CNN claims Democrats think Kamala Harris with a strong running mate is the solution to Biden's crapout. "There are also the logistics of making a new person the Democratic nominee. Harris would be able to take over the Biden campaign fundraising and ...
A good government is not a strong figurehead, it's a strong team. If Starmer used 'we' more often, hadn't completely reneged on the pledges to Party members he used to secure support, and hadn't made frankly authoritarian purges of excellent Labour ...
No, I am not being a pathetic aplogist at all, I believe. There is no law that says Ministers must read all material coming across their desks, especially interim reports. As well, a Minister can read all the material, but still make crap decisions that I ...
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