In Thursday’s budget speech the Minister of Finance, Bill English announced that this budget had four ...
Tag: Politics
Politics – A Threat to Freedom and Prosperity (5 October 2009)
The current Global Warming Debate is not about temperature or CO2 levels. It is an ideological ...
Politics – Welfare is Bad for Health (31 May 2010)
“…long term worklessness is one of the greatest risks to health in our society. It is ...
Politics – An Open Letter to the Minister of Climate Change Issues (12 October 2009)
Hon Nick Smith, Minister for Climate Change Issues - I can assure you that the government has investigated the evidence on the science of climate change from a number of different sources and I can appreciate that there are many different perspectives on
Politics – In Pursuit of the National Interest (5 July 2010)
Over the last few years the information revolution has transformed the way we communicate and access ...
Politics – The Great Quango Hunt (26 October 2009)
In 1985, New Zealand’s Attorney General, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, launched the ‘great quango hunt’. He threatened ...
Politics – A Triumph of Ideology Over Common Sense (12 July 2010)
In politics, ideology can be very dangerous if imposed without proper constraint. Nine years of rampant ...
Politics – Zombie Science, Zombie Politics (27 April 2009)
Zombie science, defn: Science that is dead but will not lie down. It keeps twitching and ...
Politics – Shedding Light on the Rising Cost of Power (2 November 2009)
The fact that one man with a forklift was able to take out the power supply ...
Politics – Arming the Police (19 July 2010)
Last Tuesday a routine Police call-out left two Police officers with gunshot wounds and a Police ...