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Syria? Or bust? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:39 am
“The whole of the Middle East is intimately related. Beneath the smooth surface of British rule and the slender garrisons which normally sustain it are smouldering the antagonisms of centuries. There ...
Russel Norman still wants you to be poorer 27 Aug 2013 | 03:47 am
He said in June he’d backed down on his plan to print money, but Russel Norman is still a limbless man in a pile of paper dollars. Only now he wants to cheapen your money not by printing millions of ...
#WhatEveritTakes 27 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
I must confess I never knew Everit myself, but whatever Everit took was clearly sufficient inspiration for the coaches and administration of the modern-day Essendon Football Club that they took it for...
New book by Lindsay Perigo: ‘The One Tenor’ 26 Aug 2013 | 11:59 am
Before the Three Tenors, there was just one. Lindsay Perigo tells the story of the overpoweringly charismatic singer of screen and record whom today’s singers still revere, and who has somewhat eluded...
A non-contest for a non-trophy 26 Aug 2013 | 10:21 am
Despite NZ’s victory on the water this morning in the conclusive Louis Vuitton UP race, it’s hard to take it seriously. It was a non-contest for a non-trophy with a non-audience, winning them the rig...
Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Rebuilding Without Repeating Costly Planning Mistakes. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:19 am
It is still not too late to rescue our cities from the “planners,” says Guest Poster Phil Hayward—not even in Christchurch. THE URBAN PLANNING PROFESSION today is completely unmoored from reality, an...
Down To The Doctor's: The ‘Lucky Country’ has a real electoral choice [corrected] 26 Aug 2013 | 06:56 am
With his gaze recently augmented by LASIK corneal surgery,* this week Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath casts it westward, at the curious bunch of people walking about on that enormous, hot and d...
Economics for Real People: Learning from Tiwai Point 26 Aug 2013 | 04:34 am
Here’s the early update for you on this week’s meeting at the Auckland Uni Economics Group… Hello all, We are very excited this week to have Professor Tony Endres join us this Thursday evening at 6pm...
Friday Morning Ramble: The ‘did anyone notice he had gone’ edition? 23 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am
David Shearer has stepped down, but should the Labour Party itself be next? After all, what does it stand for that either Greens or National doesn’t already, and articulate better? Labour needs more t...
Where to now for Labour? 22 Aug 2013 | 08:26 am
Labour leader David Shearer—who was voted in by Labour members only 2 years ago—has resigned today, citing a lack of full support from his caucus colleagues. That’s putting it mildly. Over the last ...
