Green dumping.
Solar Import Tariff Proposal Splits the Industry
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Green dumping.
Are the @NZGreens @Metiria ok with mum of 10 not naming father?
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in labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: deadbeat dads, expressive voting, New Zealand Greens, single mothers
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Yes Minister 3.5 – PM’s Constituency
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The 1940s House: The Living Room
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50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, 1957
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On 12 July we brought together parliamentarians, activists and historians to mark 50 years since the passing of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales. Here we report back from the event…
We were delighted when the Speaker accepted our suggestion of to organise an event in his official apartments to mark the anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. As many LGBT+ issues emerge in our oral history project interviews, we decided to assemble panels of Parliamentarians past and present to reflect both on their personal experiences as LGBT members of Parliament, and how the institution has changed in its attitude to homosexuality since the Act was passed. Two prestigious panels or speakers led to a wide-ranging discussion, which you can still see on BBC iplayer.
Mr Speaker introducing our first panel
After some introductory words from Mr Speaker and our Chair…
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UKMW prompts correction to UK daily that placed the Temple Mount in “Palestine”
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Earlier, we noted the following tweet from Sussex Friends of Israel in response to an article published at Lancashire Post, a UK regional daily. (Note the bottom of the tweet which shows the photo caption.)
As you can see, the photo caption placed the Al Aqsa Mosque in “Jerusalem, Palestine”.
We promptly emailed editors at Lancashire Post arguing that there is of course no such country as “Palestine” and that the Jerusalem holy site in question is in Israel. Editors upheld our complaint and revised the caption accordingly.
In Sept, 2016, UKMW prompted a similar correction at The Independent.
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New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040 in UK
26 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
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If cars are to be electric only there will obviously be a massive increase in demand on the National Grid as a result – and that’s only one of a number of major issues arising from such a policy, such as cost and practicality. Whether hybrids would still be allowed is not clear.
New diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution, the government is set to announce.
Ministers will also unveil a £255m fund to help councils tackle emissions from diesel vehicles, as part of a £3bn package of spending on air quality, reports BBC News.
The government will later publish its clean air strategy, favouring electric cars, before a High Court deadline.
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Great Moments in Foreign Government
26 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
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Since I’m always reading and writing about government policies, both in America and around the world, I’m frequently reminded of H.L. Mencken’s famous observation about the shortcomings of “tolerable” government.
If you take a close look at the world’s freest economies, you quickly learn that they are highly ranked mostly because of the even-worse governments elsewhere.
Even places such as Switzerland have some misguided policies.
But there’s a silver lining to this dark cloud. The incompetence, mendacity, and cronyism that exists all over the world means that I’ll never run out of things to write about.
So let’s enjoy a new edition of Great Moments in Foreign Government.
We’ll start with the utterly predictable failure of an entitlement program in the United Kingdom.
The government must stop ‘nannying’ British parents and do away with universal free childcare, a new report has urged. Families most in need of help…
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Our obsession with using survey data for economic research is ruining economics…
26 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
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Jonathan Newman has a piece saying economic research relies too much on survey data. However, most of surveys are biased and even large samples cannot do away with these biases:
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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