Tomorrow, the government's Climate Change Commission (an independent Crown Entity) is opening consultation for the first time on how New Zealand should meet its climate action obligations, We will be consulting with the public from 1 February - 14 March 2021 on a draft of our…
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Over the past year I've outlined in the comments an alternative triplet political model to the standard left/right description that's the usual default. It's the default for a reason, it's simple and most of the time it's a 'good enough' approximation to reality, and nothing…
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The world has been watching, mostly with amusement, as some redditors have brought a Wall Street merchant bank to its knees, by buying stocks in a company, GameStop who has seen better days and whose business model is antiquated. Members of the r/WallStreetBets subreddit saw…
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's Blog In late March 2020, the medical director of the NHS Stephen Powis said that keeping the UK COVID-19 death toll to under 20,000 would be a good result. Ten months later, almost to the day, the UK's official death…
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It may be that we have heard publicly from John Banks for the last time. If so this will be a good thing. The man harbours rather extreme racist views and has not improved with age. Decades ago Metro Magazine called him the most culturally…
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The politics of Covid continues. There have been some attacks on the Government because of the latest example community infection. For me I am astounded there have not been more. Of course we should aim for perfection and we need to. But since March 2020…
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This little video doing the Youtube rounds claims that New Zealand is the best-managed country in the world. And currently has one of the best economies. https://youtu.be/TlhUMFOBZHU Move aside Sweden. New Zealand is a safe, stable, consistent, peaceful place to live with your family, the…
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Retired Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal Judge Henry Litton raises some important questions about the motivations of the 53 would-be legislators recently arrested in Hong Kong. Five Eyes countries including New Zealand were quick to condemn the arrests, but Litton states their aim was…
Another case of Covid has appeared in the community. A 54 year old woman who lives south of Whangarei who returned overseas and went through quarantine has developed Covid after being released from quarantine. She may have the more contagious UK variant of the virus…
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