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Tuesday, 19 May 2026

What's in a name? Are we really a "capitalist command economy"?

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W HAT'S IN A NAME? What do you call an economic system that's neither a free-market economy with a small state and light-handed regu...
Monday, 18 May 2026

"Expensive karaoke"

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" I am not here to prosecute Michael Jackson or Michael the film (I won’t be seeing it), but it has driven me to once again say: we nee...
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UN's IPCC withdraws alarmist scenario, local media continues alarmist news

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T ake a quick look at the most consequential graph of the last two decades, below. But first, the news: the UN's Intergovernmental Panel...
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Saturday, 16 May 2026

Choosing careers in an AI world

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T he daughter of a Microsoft AI tech bloke was choosing careers, so he ranked them .  First problem: how would she even get started? The mos...
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Friday, 15 May 2026

The poison pill smuggled in with the Indian FTA

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Another Constitutional Trojan Horse: advancing change through political stealth F OR ALL THE FOOLISH NONSENSE about "tsunamis" tal...
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"AI is creating a crisis of authenticity."

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" L ike it or not, generative AI is becoming increasingly embedded in the process of seeking information, sharing ideas, and producing ...
Thursday, 14 May 2026

"The danger to 'the West comes not from a handful of terrorists crossing borders, but from the millions of university graduates crossing from academia into adulthood."

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" G lobalisation is here and cannot be stopped. With cheap and easy transportation around the globe (unless a country walls itself off-...

Triumph of the dumb-arses: "The Right returned culturally, but with an intellectual vacuum at its centre"

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“ T his ... has come to define much of the New Right across the West. And ultimately, it is a problem of ideas. The return of the Right in ...
Wednesday, 13 May 2026

More Houses, More Choices

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A new report from economists at the University of Hawai‘i makes a point that many of us have known all along: If we want to end the housing ...

"But love of power is not connected with goodness..."

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" I n order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualit...
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Judith Collins's legacy: image over reality.

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A career summarised: no ideas, no direction, no success -- and not one car crushed W hat does a career in politics achieve?  This afternoon ...

The Shopping Cart Theory

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“ T he shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.      "To return the shopping cart i...
Monday, 11 May 2026

“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments."

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“ O nce the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious ob...
Saturday, 9 May 2026

Why good ideas are oft-born as twins

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" W e often praise ideas for their originality and criticise other ideas for being insufficiently novel. So, what do we make of the fac...
Friday, 8 May 2026

The shirt that outlasted the Standards Authority

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T he lettuce outlasted Liz Truss. And the T-shirt has outlasted the Standards Authority at which it poked the finger. In a move that sees th...
Thursday, 7 May 2026

And meanwhile, the Iranian regime continues political executions at the rate of nearly 6 per week ... [updated]

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" O nly Trump could be stupid, ignorant and immoral enough to start a (just) war against an evil regime, and to leave them better off a...
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"Freedom is not entitlement."

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" T his is because we believe in freedom. ... "Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs ha[d] in [1990s] Bosnia. ...
Tuesday, 5 May 2026

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."

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" M uch of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded goo...
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Monday, 4 May 2026

Nicola Orwell [updated]

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O ver the weekend, we were watching the recent George Orwell doco Orwell 2+2=5 on DocPlay . Worth it, except to the extent it (deliberately...
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"Ironically, New Zealand First did not place New Zealand first."

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  " W e are discussing the soon-to-be ratified NZ-India free trade agreement and the opposition by Messrs Jones and Peters. It’s provin...
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