Counsellors Of State In The Age Of Remote Work
There’s an interesting detail tucked away near the end of the Letters Patent signifying Royal Assent to the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill. The final clause reads “WITNESS Ourself at...
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View ArticleCHRIS TROTTER: Contested ground
LAST WEEK The Waitangi Tribunal released Tino Rangatiratanga me te Kāwanatanga: The Report on Stage 2 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry (Wai 1040). For the sake of brevity, I shall refer to this...
View ArticleCan Argentina Be Rescued, Part III
My trip to Argentina last year motivated me to write Part I of this series, which focused on whether things might get better in that tragic country for the simple reason that they couldn’t possibly get...
View ArticleArgentina Milei reform impressions
I didn’t have much time in Argentina, but I can pass along a few impressions about how Milei is doing, noting I hold these with “weak belief”: 1. He is pretty popular with the general population. He...
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26 December 1991. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR met to officially end the Soviet Union. It was an unintended consequence of Gorbachev’s reforms within the Soviet Union, which ironically ended with the...
View ArticleThe authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Anti-Fascist...
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View ArticleDON BRASH: WHY THE MAORI ELECTORATES MUST GO
One of the strange omissions from the coalition agreements which marked the establishment of the new Government was any reference to the Maori electorates. Perhaps in one sense the omission was not...
View ArticleMilei Speaks Truth to WEF Elite Power
Argentina’s President Javier Milei had a warning for those attending the annual WEF meeting in Davos, Switzerland; ‘the Western world is in danger’ from ‘collectivist experiments’ such as Diversity,...
View ArticleWill Milei succeed in Argentina?
I give him a 30-40% chance, which is perhaps generous because I am rooting for him. Bryan Caplan, who is more optimistic, offers some analysis and estimates that Milei needs to close a fiscal gap of...
View ArticleLife is full of tradeoffs: it costs money to keep chemicals out of our water...
See Who Pays to Get Forever Chemicals Out of Drinking Water? It Could Be You: Officials say settlements with 3M and DuPont won’t cover all of the costs of building new filtration systems by John...
View ArticleSeymour raises tax and Treaty issues in his “state of the nation” speech...
Buzz from the Beehive Just one statement has been posted on the government’s official website since Attorney-General Judith Collins announced the appointment of a new High Court Judge late last week....
View ArticleBreaking the Culture of Welfare Dependency
One hope that has occasionally been expressed since the beginning of the modern era of Treaty of Waitangi (ToW) settlements, has been that the Iwi showered with money and empowered with control of...
View ArticleDON BRASH: WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE WANT TO BE?
Last Sunday, the Sunday Star-Times recalled on its front page the “fiery debate” triggered by my speech to the Orewa Rotary Club just 20 years earlier. Articles by several authors in the same paper...
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