Utopia, you are standing in it!

Labour says they want more competition in grocery retail. I worry about the cursed monkey paw version of it.Here’s what they say:“We know that it’s tough right now for many people, and the high cost of food isn’t helping,” Commerce and Consumer Affairs spokesperson Duncan Webb said.“The inquiry we ordered into competition in the grocery…

A late pitch for supermarket competition

Elizabeth Rate writes – There are two versions of the Treaty of Waitangi.  The first is the 1840 Treaty – the ‘Articles Treaty’. The second is what I call the ‘Principles Treaty’. It dates from 1986 when the principles were first included in legislation. Astonishingly, the parliamentary representatives who inserted the word ‘principles’ did not […]

ELIZABETH RATA: Two Treaties of Waitangi – the Articles Treaty and the Principles Treaty

In March 2023, I visited Ma’agan Michael Kibbutz and had a meeting with a former Israeli government official charged with managing the government bailout of about 200 kibbutzim.  Both offered empirical lessons about the challenges of communal living.   Background and Description Ma’agan Michael was one of the few kibbutzim not bailed out.  It is…

Economics Lessons from the Kibbutzim

By Paul Homewood   h/t Paul Kolk     This was all so predictable!   Britain’s biggest motorway service station provider has brought in marshals to police “charge rage” among electric vehicle drivers battling for access to plug-in points. Moto chief executive Ken McMeikan warned the UK’s motorway service stations are facing growing “public disorder” […]

Motorway service stations hiring staff to police surging levels of EV ‘charge rage’

By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk   And in yet more bad news for the EV rollout:   John Lewis has stopped offering insurance to electric car drivers amid fears over the cost of repairs. The department store’s lending business John Lewis Financial Services has put a temporary pause on customers taking out cover or […]

John Lewis stops insuring electric cars over repair cost fears

Without so much as batting an eyelid, Chris Hipkins told an audience on Saturday that there had been “more racism” in this election campaign than ever before. And he blamed it on the opposition parties, National, Act and New Zealand First. In those statements he indicated his unworthiness to be the Prime Minister of New…

MICHAEL BASSETT: HAPLESS HIPKINS AND HIS RACISM

By now most of us know that Coleman Hughes, a heterodox black thinker, got into trouble when he gave a preapproved TED talk echoing Martin Luther King’s “don’t judge a person by their skin color” trope. Hughes’s point wasn’t that we shouldn’t be aware of color, but what we need to do is concentrate on […]

Jesse Singal on Coleman Hughes vs. TED

Tweet… is from page 29 of the 1981 edition of George Reisman’s translation of Ludwig von Mises’s 1933 tract, Epistemological Problems of Economics: Human action always confronts experience as a complex phenomenon that first must be analyzed and interpreted by a theory before it can even be set in the context of an hypothesis that…

Quotation of the Day…

There have been repeated references to the ten facts that I alluded to in my congressional testimony as establishing an ample basis to launch a formal impeachment inquiry. I have received emails asking about those ten developments so I wanted to post them. They are found in my written testimony, but I did not have […]

Ten Reasons Why the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Justified

So Diane Feinstein did not make it to the political finish line of 2025. Suffering from numerous ailments, including senility, and often absent from the Senate, and having announced that she would retire at the end of this term, she finally died the other day at the age of 90. Despite attacks on her by […]

Death and popcorn

I don’t suppose anybody will be terribly surprised when I say that my party vote will be going to ACT on 14 October. I was a proud member of the National Party when I was in Parliament between 2002 and early 2007, and of course when I was Leader of that Party between late 2003…

DON BRASH: WHY MY PARTY VOTE WILL BE GOING TO ACT

Want to make a small fortune in the offshore wind industry? Then start with a large one. In the absence of endless subsidies and guaranteed, fixed-price contracts (set at ludicrously high prices), the purported economic case for wind power never, ever stacks up. And the numbers are far worse out at sea. Take a machine […]

Not For Profit: Offshore Wind Power Projects Wiped Out By Rising Costs

This morning, I will testify in the first hearing of the impeachment inquiry of President Joseph Biden. The hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability will start at 10am in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building. My written testimony is below.

Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing

National’s “fiscal plan” came out this afternoon. To no one’s great surprise I guess, we didn’t learn much from it. The big National numbers had been in the Back Pocket Boost package a few weeks ago, combined with the statement from Willis last week that National would get back to an OBEGAL surplus no sooner […]

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