Rand Paul successfully debates Jake Tapper on climate change
20 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
When President Trump announced he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul was interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN. In this interview, Paul does a masterful job of not only defending the president’s decision but also overcoming Tapper’s climate alarmism.
Should have done better
06 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
A couple of months ago the Institute of Directors approached me about doing a talk to their members in Wellington on monetary policy as it had been conducted by the Reserve Bank over recent times. Somewhat to my surprise, my name had apparently been suggested to them by Alan Bollard.
I gave the talk this morning, and although the date was set ages ago it could hardly have been more timely given the labour market data yesterday, which in a way finally marks the completion of not just the last 18 months’ of monetary policy, but in some ways the last 14 years (for the first time since the 2008/09 recession we have core inflation a little above the Bank’s target midpoint and the unemployment rate back to something that must be close to the NAIRU.
The full text of my remarks, and a few more points I didn’t have…
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August 1, 1714: The Elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain and Ireland. Conclusion.
04 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
Elector Ernst-August died on January 23, 1698, leaving all of his territories to George with the exception of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück, an office he had held since 1661. George thus became Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg as well as Archbannerbearer and a Prince-Elector of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire. His court in Hanover was graced by many cultural icons such as the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and the composers George Frideric Händel and Agostino Steffani.
Shortly after George’s accession to his paternal duchy, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne, who was second-in-line to the English and Scottish thrones, died. By the terms of the English Act of Settlement 1701, George’s mother, Sophia, was designated as the heir to the English throne if the then reigning monarch, William III, and his sister-in-law, Anne, died without surviving issue.
The succession was so designed because Sophia was the closest…
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The attacks on seven eminent professors over a Listener letter in which they championed science have missed their target
03 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
Pre-modern cultures were knowledgeable of plants and animals; those that were not did not survive. The closest their cultures came to being scientific was tasting and cooking plants and animals to see if they were not poisonous.
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A letter in defence of science, published in The Listener last month, was signed by seven professors from the University of Auckland – Kendall Clements, Garth Cooper, Emeritus Professor Michael Corballis, Douglas Elliffe, Elizabeth Rata, Emeritus Professor Robert Nola, and Emeritus Professor John Werry.
Prominent scientists were among the critics of the letter-writers. But despite their disquiet, dismay or outrage, the critics have avoided stating that mātauranga Māori is scientific.
GRAHAM ADAMS asks why they are skirting the main issue.
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A distinctly curious feature of the backlash against the seven professors’ letter published in The Listener titled “In Defence of Science” is that none of its most prominent critics have actually defended mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori knowledge) as being scientific.
Yet the main point of the letter by the seven Auckland University professors — and the main point of contention for its critics — was summed up in…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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