Utopia, you are standing in it!

Jackson and the Treaty – it seems he has forgotten what Lange said about partnership and why Clark wouldn’t sign UN declaration Let’s hear it for Labour’s Willie Jackson, a minister of this, that and the other in the Hipkins government and a fellow with a curious grasp of what happened in the days of…

BOB EDLIN: Jackson and the Treaty

In my torts class, I often compare the different approaches and doctrines in the United States and the United Kingdom. One of the most pronounced is the position and authority of physicians on issues like consent and malpractice. This week produced a particularly striking example. British doctors are seeking to take a 19-year-old critically ill […]

British Court Rules that Competent and Conscious Patient Can Be Denied Life-Sustaining Treatment Against Her Will

By Paul Homewood   h/t Mike Rennoldson   Research has revealed that wildfires are on the decline, despite the mainstream narrative that they have increased because of “climate change.” Danish author and academic Bjorn Lomborg’s analysis, published in the Wall Street Journal, reveals a large disparity between the actual number of wildfires and the concern […]

Climate Change Hasn’t Set the World on Fire–Bjorn Lomborg

I’ve written a few posts here over the years about the idea – which apparently Labour, National, and the Greens are now keen on – of a state established and funded policy costings unit. The most recent two were a month ago, here and here. I’m a longstanding sceptic of the case for such a […]

Policy costings: a case study

There is an interesting free speech ruling in Texas in favor of the adult entertainment site, Pornhub. Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that a Texas law requiring age-verification and warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn contravenes the First Amendment. […]

Pornhub Wins Free Speech Challenge to New Verification and Warning Laws

By Paul Homewood   h/t Paul Kolk     Parisians have voted to ban rental electric scooters in their city, dealing a blow to scooter operators and a triumph for road safety campaigners.Almost 90% of votes cast on Sunday favoured a ban the battery-powered devices, official results showed. But under 8% of those eligible turned […]

Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters

Jackson and the Treaty – it seems he has forgotten what Lange said about partnership and why Clark wouldn’t sign UN declaration Let’s hear it for Labour’s Willie Jackson, a minister of this, that and the other in the Hipkins government and a fellow with a curious grasp of what happened in the days of…

BOB EDLIN: Jackson and the Treaty

By Paul Homewood   h/t Paul Kolk   Blimey!! Ben Marlow has finally seen the light!       Sadiq Khan’s controversial Ultra-Low Emissions Zone scheme for London was supposed to put the rocket-boosters under electric car demand. With the Mayor pressing ahead with a highly-contentious scheme that forces non-compliant petrol and diesel car drivers […]

The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of net zero don’t add up

Let’s hear it for Labour’s Willie Jackson, a minister of this, that and the other in the Hipkins government and a fellow with a curious grasp of what happened in the days of David Lange and Helen Clark. In Parliament yesterday, Jackson said ACT leader has a lot to answer for: “He’ll kill our Māori […]

Jackson and the Treaty – it seems he has forgotten what Lange said about partnership and why Clark wouldn’t sign UN declaration

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani lost a defamation lawsuit by default Wednesday in Washington, D.C. In a 57-page ruling, United States District Judge Beryl Howell shredded Giuliani for not producing evidence in the case filed by election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. She then ordered a default and the payment of the plaintiffs’ attorneys […]

Giuliani Loses Defamation Case By Default

I had to check up a specific productivity number this morning and noticed that it had got to the time of year when the OECD finally has a complete set of real GDP per hour worked (labour productivity) data for 2022. Data for 2020 and 2021 had been messed around by Covid disruptions, and measurement […]

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