More Popper
24 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, Karl Popper Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter
23 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “unholy mess.” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a […]
Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter
BRYCE EDWARDS: Is it now all over for the Labour Government?
23 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Bryce Edwards writes – Labour appears to be in something of an electoral death spiral. The four-point drop in last night’s 1News Verian poll to just 29 per cent – together with National’s bump up to 37 per cent – suggests that the gulf between the left and right blocs is now opening up, and […]
BRYCE EDWARDS: Is it now all over for the Labour Government?
Mythbusting: There’s No Way Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Coal & Gas
23 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
The fact that every country that’s increased reliance on wind and solar is suffering rocketing power prices is incontrovertible. And that simple relationship puts paid to the myth that wind and solar are cheaper than coal and gas, principally because it’s heavily subsidised wind and solar that are (occasionally) displacing coal and gas-fired power. When […]
Mythbusting: There’s No Way Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Coal & Gas
The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends
23 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in The Hill on the increasingly popular theory that former president Donald Trump is already barred from office under the 14th Amendment. It is a theory that, in my view, has a political appeal that outstrips its constitutional support. In a constitution designed to protect free […]
The Disqualification of Donald Trump and Other Legal Urban Legends
The World Chess Foundation Bars Transgender Women in Competitions
22 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
The World Chess Foundation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its competitions for women. The decision by FIDE, the Switzerland-based federation, is perplexing and disturbing. FIDE is setting a two-year period for review. Frankly, I do not understand why there are male and female competitions in chess where relative strength is not an […]
The World Chess Foundation Bars Transgender Women in Competitions
Yet another poll puts Labour’s support below 30% as nation seeks saviour from economic woes
22 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
As the third poll in a row shows Labour slipping below 30%, and the gap between parties on the right and those on the left widening, the prospect of a change of government on October 14 has strengthened. This of course is a blow to those who believed the ascendancy of Chris Hipkins to the […]
Yet another poll puts Labour’s support below 30% as nation seeks saviour from economic woes
Fatal attitudes toward crime – Los Angeles
21 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
LA’s crime problems are not as bad as those of San Francisco and Oakland, where the latest piece of irony is that officials have advised workers at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building to work remotely if possible due to “public safety concerns”. But if LA is not doing as badly that’s likely only because it’s […]
Fatal attitudes toward crime – Los Angeles
Almost done…at least according to the Reserve Bank
21 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
I’m not a huge fan of central banks publishing medium-term economic forecasts (or projections as we were usually schooled to call them). As I understand it, decades ago the Reserve Bank of New Zealand only started publishing them because the Official Information Act was passed (and in those days the forecasts made little or no […]
Almost done…at least according to the Reserve Bank
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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