The Prime Minister is beginning to look like a lame duck However, he left co-governance in Three Waters and elsewhere untouched. With the media rooting for him — including blithely ignoring the fact he had been a lynch pin in Ardern’s Cabinet — Hipkins’ administration had an immediate bump in the polls. Suddenly Labour […]
GRAHAM ADAMS: Hipkins’ Government enters election season in disarray
GRAHAM ADAMS: Hipkins’ Government enters election season in disarray
12 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Italy Breaks Through – Cadorna’s Triumph I THE GREAT WAR Week 107
12 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Laxity, or worse
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Reading the hardcopy Herald over lunch I spotted an article under the heading “Ministry boss apologises over spend-up”, referring to Mr Leauanae, the chief executive of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) as regards the events surrounding his farewell from his previous role as head of the Ministry of Pacific Peoples (MPP) and his […]
Laxity, or worse
Thomas Sargent Delivers the 2022 Simpson Lecture
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
Japan estimate of the day
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
An estimated 42% of adult Japanese women may end up never having children, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing a soon-to-be-published estimate by a government research group. In a more optimistic scenario, a quarter of women born in 2005 may end up not having offspring. The midpoint estimate by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security […]
Japan estimate of the day
Legislating Sanctity: Protecting the Graveyard in Medieval England
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 10 August 2023. Chris Newman / Kirkconnel Church & Cemetery, Springkell. Wikimedia. Burial of the dead was a grave matter in medieval England. Last rites, a funeral mass, burial in consecrated ground – all were mandatory rituals intended to assist in the soul’s journey from the earthly realm to Purgatory and then […]
Legislating Sanctity: Protecting the Graveyard in Medieval England
Bockscar the plane that dropped ‘Fat Man’ on Nagasaki
09 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Most people will know the name ‘Enola Gay’ the plane that dropped the 1st Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but surprisingly not that many people will have heard of the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, some even think that Enola Gay dropped both. Bockscar, sometimes called Bock’s Car, is the name of the United […]
Bockscar the plane that dropped ‘Fat Man’ on Nagasaki
Dogs get bigger as law and order gets worse as you move east
09 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: dogs
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