Chris McCorkindale and Aileen McHarg: Continuity and Confusion: Towards Clarity? – The Supreme Court and the Scottish Continuity Bill
20 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
Introduction
The Supreme Court has now handed down its judgment in The UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill – A reference by the Attorney General and the Advocate General for Scotland. The Bill marked a series of firsts: a consequence of the first UK statute to be passed notwithstanding the refusal of consent by the Scottish Parliament (the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018); the first Scottish Government Bill to be introduced with a negative statement of competence by the Presiding Officer; and, the first Scottish Bill to be referred to the UK Supreme Court by the UK Law Officers. In previous posts we have set out what it was (legally and politically) that the Bill sought to achieve and why, in our view, the Bill as introduced arguably was (in light of the Presiding Officer’s contrary view) within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament
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Next to no drug users in federal prisons!
20 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: war on drugs
Industrialised Murder: Indian Study Shows Wind Turbines Slaughter 75% of Local Raptors
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How green is this? Golden eagle ‘transitions’ to wind power.
One issue that annoys RE zealots, like a burr under a frisky pony’s saddle blanket, is the wind industry’s rampant bird and bat slaughter. It’s an inconvenient truth to be sure. But, as with everything that the wind industry does, if you can’t keep a straight face while lying about it any more, then pull out all stops and cover it up.
The wholesale slaughter of millions of birds and bats – includes rare, endangered and majestic species, like America’s iconic bald and golden eagles. The default response from the wind industry is to lie like fury and – when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails – to issue court proceedings to literally bury those facts (see our post here).
The hackneyed retort from the wind cult is that cars, cats and tall buildings…
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Research suggests we should take a harder look at the benefits of organic foods
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I always wondered what would happen to organic farming if included in the carbon trading system along with the rest of agriculture
The Green Party’s food policy may need revisiting, in the light of research published in the past week.
The policy was introduced in May 2017 by Green Party MP Mojo Mathers, who lost her list place in Parliament at the general election.
How we produce, distribute and consume food is of critical importance to growing
resilient healthy communities, minimising our ecological footprint and maintaining a
stable economy, she said. That’s why food policy lies at the heart of Green policy.
Mather said:
“Aotearoa New Zealand can reap multiple benefits from a healthy and equitable food system that ensures environmental protection, social connection, and healthy communities.”
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Ten Minute English and British History #15 – The Hundred Years’ War
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in defence economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: British history, France
Tullock Lecture: Richard Epstein
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment regulation, Uber
Documentary Review
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
They Shall Not Grow Old is an astonishing documentary. The familiar herky-jerky and often grainy scratched silent footage of the Western Front during the First World War has been entirely transformed by Peter Jackson in his film that was screened nationwide on December 17th and will be screened again on December 27th. The one-hundred year old original stilted footage that has always seemed to belong to a different and lost era has been restored with the application of technological processes to feel very lifelike and modern. The soldiers in They Shall Not Grow Old are once again made real.
The footage, drawn from the hundreds of hours of film that was shot on hand cranked cameras and is held at the Imperial War Museum, has been cleaned, sped up, and colorized with sounds of war and some music added in. The film narration is excerpted from oral history interviews with…
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Why Colombia is losing the cocaine war
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: war on drugs
How effective was the Tiger really?
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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