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A Meeting to End a War Started One
At least of words. I will try and give some balance to this article. Not the easiest of tasks but here goes.
You Cannot Stop People From Asking Questions
What Dame Anne is engaging in is what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt calls ‘bullshit’. This is where intellectuals and policy makers, who have no good answers to valid questions from regular people, essentially resort to using jargon to sidestep the matter.
A Defence of Musk and Masculine Virtues
The importance of traffic cones at the top of trees.
Why Does Porirua Honour a Māori Tyrant?
Porirua’s leaders must ask themselves if their community really wants to immortalise a man who traded in human lives?
Mark Carney Becomes PM of Canada
My former economics MPhil and DPhil classmate for many hard years.
News Briefing: 12 March 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, FAST-TRACK Laura Walters (Newsroom): Staying up late for Luxon’s sell-a-thon, hawking NZ to the world John Tookey (The Conversation): Hey big spenders: what foreign investors will really want from the infrastructure summit Brent Edwards (NBR): Fast-track
The Importance of Knowing Your Enemy
Those who fail to learn the lessons that history provides us are doomed to repeat the failures of the past in the here and now.
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Face of the Day
Aged 87, Brierley appeared in the Waverley Local Court in Sydney this afternoon following his arrest by police this morning.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… chutzpah (noun): : supreme self-confidence : nerve, gall Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The word chutzpah has been boldly circulating through English since the mid-1800s. It comes from the Yiddish word khutspe, which comes in turn from the Hebrew word ḥuṣpāh. The ch in
The Good Oil Daily Proverb
The godly care for their animals, but the wicked are always cruel
Taste Tuesday
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Chris Hipkins: Labour will campaign on 'tax reform'
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