The deal is done. Together with lots of side-agreements, big-up pledges, finance, and no definite language on Section 6. Not a disaster, not a spectacular success, somewhere on the not too bad side for the effort involved. The landmark inclusion of language to phase out “unabated…
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Most of us have been diminished by COVID in 2020-21 so it’s time for everyone to prepare 2022 as an honest accounting of damage to our whole society. It’s not a global war, it’s not a Global Financial Crisis, it’s this unnameable thing. We will…
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The results of two polls were leaked yesterday. David Farrar's Curia poll had Labour on 39.3%, down 5.5%. National were on 26.2%, up 3.7% which historically would have been considered disastrous but not too bad for recent results. Act were on 15.9%, down 0.7% and…
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The Deranged Ardren Syndrome vibe is strong today. But not from a UN Agenda 21 George Soros is funding a World Government takeover and Bill Gates is putting chips in your vaccine anti vaxxer, it is from a senior reporter with the Herald. Dear Reader,…
University of Sussex philosophy professor Kathleen Stock talks in this 2020 video with two trans women, Dr Sian Lacey Taylder and Emma. At one point she is asked "what is gender?" and gives a four minute overview of the word 'gender' in the context of…
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Advantage has written this very principled post on how as a matter of protection of an important principle the freedom protesters yesterday should be respected. I agree as a principle that the right to protest is important. But my view is that the tolerance shown…
Human rights are a pain in the ass. Yesterday's protesters were rude, unfit to invite home to dinner, shouty, and so incoherent that you could't make any sensible point with them. They were and are a pain in the ass. But they are OUR pain…
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Well paint me red and call me Josef Stalin. This post will probably invite SIS investigation of my background. But I have been doing some reading into Cuba's response to Covid and I must say that it is impressive. Cuba is a not large island…
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