Christmas deadlines being what they are, I haven't managed to fit in a bulletin this week. But I will be back next week
to sign off for 2001. See y'all then.
Science, in the not-so-recent-past, has often had a bad press. It's been personified,
particularly by the political left, as Frankenstein, as agents of capitalism, classical
liberalism, colonialism, sexism (yang over yin), eugenics, and god-like pretension. ...
By most reckonings the ACT Party has had a very successful political year. Not only
has its expanded Parliamentary team settled in well to its work, without controversy
or scandal, but its leader has gained in community respect, and the party’s support, ...
"Broad growth is only going to come when you put money in the hands of people,
and that's why we talk about a Universal Basic Income". [Ritu Dewan, Indian
Society of Labour Economics]. (From How long before India's economy recovers , 'Context ...
Words can provide sharp traps, fettering language and caging definitions. They can
also speak to freedom of action and permissiveness. At COP26, that permissiveness
was all the more present in the haggling ahead of what would become the Glasgow Climate ...
When I first saw Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, in 2019, shortly after he had
been dragged from his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy, he said, “I think I am
losing my mind.”
If I were still a member of the Labour Party I would be feeling a little concerned
after this week’s Colmar Brunton public opinion poll. Not because the poll suggested
Labour is going to lose office any time soon – it did not – nor because it showed ...