SA80: Is This The Worst Rifle Ever Made?
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Why didn’t Italy join the Central Powers in World War One?
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Fight For Air Supremacy – Bloody April 1917 I THE GREAT WAR Special feat. Real Engineering
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A conjuring trick to let PM choose a Bishop | Yes Prime Minister
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When does a coalition partner have a veto?
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Does entering into a coalition government imply that a political party is a “veto player”? Some scholars would say yes, while others raise cautions about such a generalization. I would side with those who sound the caution and say that it depends.
The issue arises because in Israel, the Otzma Yehudit party leader, Itamar Ben Gvir, has issued another demand that is gumming up the process of forming what in theory should be a highly compact minimum winning coalition of the right–orthodox bloc in Israel.
According to the Times of Israel, Ben Gvir said “We want a deputy in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation” and without this, “we can’t form a government.” The news update notes that a spokesman has clarified that he means that veto power is his intention with this demand.
As the article notes, the rules of procedure for the Ministerial Committee for Legislation are subject…
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Why testing Concorde took 7 years
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Yes, Minister Best of Series 1 & 1984 Christmas Special
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Ultra High Speed Cameras: Filming the Impossible
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Ladies and Gentlemen, your Prime Minister
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in constitutional political economy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Not So Cheap: You’re Paying Colossal Cost Of Climate Cult’s Wind & Solar Obsession
11 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
Their self-inflated ‘virtue’ has a price, and you’re paying it, every red cent of it. That last jaw-dropping power bill has their fingerprints all over it. So do the occasions when thousands are left sitting freezing or boiling in the dark; when cash-strapped businesses are forced to sack staff to cut their overheads so they cover their escalating power bills; when struggling families power forced to choose between food on the table and light and power.
The moment when neo-Marxist ideologues grabbed the tiller and engineers were relegated to the pages of history, things were never going to pan out all that well for power consumers.
The destruction of reliable and affordable power supplies was inevitable; but that result was as perfectly predictable, as it was perfectly avoidable.
Alexandra Marshall explains precisely why.
This is war: Renewables vs the West
Spectator Australia
Alexandra Marshall
14 November 2022
The future of…
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: MILITANT SPIRIT by James Traub
11 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
(John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States)
At a time when most Americans believe they are witnessing the most divisive political campaign they have ever experienced, they need only to turn the clock back to the 1828 presidential campaign when Andrew Jackson, angry because he believed the previous election had been stolen because of a “corrupt bargain” between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, launched a nasty and personal attack against Adams as early as his inauguration resulting in Jackson’s eventual victory. This political clash is just one component of James Traub’s excellent new biography, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: MILITANT SPIRIT. Adam’s the son of our second president was a rather enigmatic and recalcitrant figure who seemed to always answer to principle, not political expediency. His diplomatic career consisted of ministerial posts in the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, England, as well as serving as Secretary of State. His political…
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