How India is solving energy poverty without the help of @oxfam and @greenpeace
30 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
But @women_nz @julieannegenter will still blame employer discrimination for the gender wage gap. Can’t let facts bugger a good conspiracy theory
29 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Robert Hazell: Is the Fixed-term Parliaments Act a Dead Letter?
28 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Cross-posted from the Constitution Unit blog.
The ease with which Theresa May was able to secure an early dissolution last week has led to suggestions that the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 serves no useful purpose and should be scrapped. Drawing on wider evidence of how fixed-term parliaments legislation works in other countries, Robert Hazell argues that there is a danger that it is being judged prematurely, on the basis of a single episode. Future circumstances in which a Prime Minister seeks a dissolution may be different, and in these cases the Fixed-term Parliaments Act may serve as more of a constraint.
On 19 April the House of Commons voted by 533 votes to 13 to support the Prime Minister’s motion for an early general election, easily surpassing the two-thirds threshold required for dissolution under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. In the preceding debate Conservative MPs such as Sir Edward Leigh…
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#OTD what @Oxfamnz ignores every day and the institutional reasons why too
28 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Good repost from McGrattan and Prescott using intangible capital measurement improvements
27 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
From A Reassessment of Real Business Cycle Theory. McGrattan, Ellen R; Prescott, Edward C. The American Economic Review; Nashville Vol. 104, Iss. 5, (May 2014): 177-18
So we men, misogynist bastards all, aren’t to blame after all @women_nz @julieannegenter
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Trumping Turbines: Five Good Reasons to Hate Heavily Subsidised & Chaotically Intermittent Wind Power
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
You don’t have to be a genius to work out that wind power is the greatest environmental and economic fraud of all time. President of the United States of America, Donald J Trump has been railing about it for years. And he keeps doing so. Much to the disgust and horror of his many detractors. Much of their anger relates to the fact that they have a hard time proving him wrong.
Twitter jockeys had a field day when Trump suggested that wind turbines cause cancer.
Well, it depends what you mean by ‘cause’.
An Australian Court found long-term exposure to wind turbine noise to be a pathway to disease: Australian Court Finds Wind Turbine Noise Exposure a ‘Pathway to Disease’: Waubra Foundation Vindicated
Based on a raft of expert medical and acoustic evidence the court held that that the “noise annoyance” caused by wind turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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