New Zealand, a low tax country with no capital gains tax, is struggling for funds to run a modern public health system. Tracy Watkins, a prominent media leader: we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. We're ill-served by thinking like this. The Post & SST are ill-served by her leadership.
and this in turn reminds of something a religion professor once said to our class: "in black church tradition, christians worship a jesus who has been lynched. in the white church tradition, christians worship a jesus who could be forgiven for lynching"
CW: very distressing article which talks about large scale death. I am so, so, so glad we Dame Jacinda in charge of the country during Covid. For other countries, it was traumatic, like the UK. I suspect this poor doctor has PTSD.
Prof Kevin Fong, who was on shift during 7/7 bombings, says height of pandemic was like a âterrorist attack every dayâ
New policy brief on our work studying the removal of race adjustment from the eGFR equation: hai.stanford.edu/policy-brief...proceedings.mlr.press/v248/cusick2...
How does impartiality relate to quality of government? blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Following a set of scandals the previous Conservative Government was entangled in, Labour promised to introduce an integrity and ethics commission. In light of recent revelations around gifts to thâŚ
The "free speech is for me and not for thee" bozo clown show has rolled up again.
My amazing buds at The Future is Rail are calling for the replacement Cook Strait ferries to be rail-enabled. Please sign and share this far and wide to get the attention of Ministers Willis, Goldsmith, and Brown đ â´ď¸ #trainboat#boattrainour.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/do...
The ageing Interislander ferries must be replaced. We believe itâs crucial that new ferries are rail-enabled and publicly owned, letting rail freight and equipment move easily between the North and...
This is my last word on the WFH discourse. The public sector has been WFH, at scale, since the 2011 earthquake sequence in Waitaha. It reflects poorly on the central agencies that we donât have any system-level understanding of whether and how remote working empirically contributes to productivity.