The true size of nuclear explosions
05 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics Tags: atomic bombs
Challenges to good government in Northern Ireland: all shapes and sizes of icebergs
05 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
With no ministers in charge since March 2017, public administration in Northern Ireland faces serious challenges. Civil servants have been attempting to keep things running, but on collapsing legal foundations. A public Inquiry has raised issues about competence, commitment and propriety in the old devolved government. There is little energy behind restoration of devolved government, and little lead from London. The lack of attention to good government, suggests Alan Whysall, is a serious weakness in Northern Ireland political culture that must be tackled. The first part of this blog outlines the current challenges; the second, what might be done about them.
There is a side of Northern Ireland that revels in its disasters. A whole quarter of Belfast is after all named after the Titanic, rather than the many Harland and Wolff ships that did not sink. So there was resentment when the Guinness Book of Records recently denied
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Guardian quotes Gaza ‘protester’ claiming new night time riots are meant to save lives
05 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
You don’t need to be a journalist, Mid-East analyst or expert of any kind to come up with a list of practical steps ‘protesters’ participating in the Hamas organised Great Return March can take to save Palestinian lives.
Here are just a few:
- Stop firing at soldiers on the border.
- Stop throwing grenades and other explosive devices at soldiers on the border.
- Stop attempting to damage the security fence and infiltrate into Israel in order to kill Jews.
We don’t mean to be cheeky, but to introduce a larger point: that the Guardian’s coverage of the region is characterised, as much as any other factor, by the denial of Palestinian agency, with reports invariably describing the cause of Gaza’s woes as some sort of act of nature or, much more often, the result of Israeli malevolence.
Reports on Palestinian deaths and injuries during the Gaza border riots which have taken…
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5 Worst Jobs Given To Children In History
05 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics Tags: child labour
Reply of @NZTreasury to my Privacy Act request for a statement of correction to be attached to incorrect personal information
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
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Vapor products, harm reduction, and taxation: More questions than answers for a young and dynamic product market
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
@NZPSA should have killed my op-ed with silence. Now have another chance to go at them again.
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
After 1000s of spam emails, I finally received real DHL delivery pending emails
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in administration, economics Tags: Armen Alchain
Are claims of the lack of moderate muslims fair?
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Here’s hoping Guyon Espiner now grills Callaghan Innovation about its OIA practices…
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
Before exposing his moral indignation about the Taxpayers’ Union using false names to file Official Information Act requests, Radio New Zealand’s Guyon Espiner should have consulted the publisher of No Right Turn.
This blog and the Taxpayers Union are poles apart, ideologically.
But political commentator Malcolm Harbrow – who blogs under the nom-de-plumeis an indefatigable champion of the public’s right to request information from public agencies under the OIA and a stern critic of agencies which fail to meet their legal obligations to provide the information requested.
He was astonished by the thrust of an article, published by the New Zealand Herald under the byline of one David Fisher and beguilingly headed How right-wing lobby group NZ Taxpayers’ Union used false identities to make OIA request – and how it got caught.
This article was the prompt for Espiner, on Morning Report today, grilling Taxpayers Union chief…
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Jonn Cochrane Says Allowing European Defaults `Best’ for Euro
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, Euro crisis, financial economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: sovereign defaults
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