We keep on being told by political partisans like Winston Peters (and in the past, by Michael Cullen) that Parliament must remain paramount, and that this is a virtue of our form of social democracy.
The PREFU itself concedes (page 7) that there could be somewhere between a one in five and a one in ten chance that the errors in the PREFU calculations will be the same size as the OBEGALx surplus ...
In order to create a temporary glut that (he hopes) will push US diesel prices down before the midterm elections, Donald Trump is talking about imposing a ban on US diesel exports – even if that means ...
To Lobel, Owl was not a mere neurotic like Toad (in the Frog and Toad series) who retains a grasp of reality and kicks against its confines. Instead, Owl is a kindly homebody who has all but lost ...
Khn de Poitrine (guitar) and Klek de Poitrine (drums) are better known to their parents as Marc Antoine Mackin-Gay and Charles Thibault. Plainly, they’re not just a costume party. As the KEXP video ...
Long after she left office, Margaret Thatcher was asked to name her greatest accomplishment, and she famously replied: “Tony Blair, and New Labour.” Meaning: although it had begun life on the margins ...
In the Werewolf series on classic children’s books, this week’s essay is about George Selden’s charming story of interspecies friendship There’s no logical reason for thinking that people who write ...
If political science really was a science, and the people in lab coats tried to create the perfect political issue in the lab, the end result would look a lot like the R16 social media ban. Checklist: ...
In this entry in the series on classic children’s books, the owls are not what they seem, but the English stay true to type. For a children’s book, this book has an extremely chilly dedication line: ...
He’s on the blue team. He’s always making mistakes for which he needs to apologise, to the eye rolling exasperation of his colleagues. I’m talking of course, about Clumsy Smurf. In the real world, PM ...
Taxaphobes. They’re running amok in Parliament. Both the major parties have joined ACT in assuming that the voting public is as phobic about tax as they are. (We aren’t, but more on that later.) A few ...
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