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Dunne inquiry preciousness may stifle journalist freedoms themselves 26 Aug 2013 | 12:44 pm
It is striking from Select Committee News' detailed report of the Privileges Committee interrogation of Parliamentary officials, including the unfortunate Mr Thorn, that no Parliamentarian manages to ...
Businesses sacrificed to lawyer-cleric purism. 24 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
Voidable preferences Suppliers beware! You can now be made to repay many times more than you’ve ever earned from customers who go broke. Your money will go into the liquidators’ pool for the benefit ...
Replace the foolish Barons in Council 3 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
Wellington sucks. All capitals suck. They suck money, power, initiative and ambitious people. Paris sucks from all of France. Vienna’s glories were sucked from throughout the Austro Hungarian Empire...
The China Free Trade Agreement explained 29 Jul 2013 | 12:35 pm
Do you need to understand FTA complexities in detail? My colleague Rob Ogilvie has drawn my attention to an excellent paper, Uncertain Opportunities: Chinese Investors Establishing Investments in New...
House buying ban blocked by China FTA? 29 Jul 2013 | 05:22 am
The Labour Party’s new policy to prevent non-residents from buying existing houses seemed inconsistent with the equal treatment Article of the NZ China FTA. That FTA was a proudly claimed achievement ...
Good appointments 25 Jul 2013 | 09:41 am
Bad news vs good, horror films vs comedy, complaints vs plaudits – few people find balance in these, or even in perceptions of which is dominant. I criticise more often than I praise on this blog, th...
HSBC Tower tenants arise! 22 Jul 2013 | 04:13 am
HSBC Tower in Wellington is new, sound and built on base isolators. Yet it is 'closed' to entry, and only the few MFAT or other employees who got there early enough to beat the closing order are produ...
The Left’s contempt for ordinary people 17 Jul 2013 | 07:40 am
Whale Oil posts a fierce polemic on the UK left's false and patronising claims to speak for ordinary 'hard working' people. I must get Nick Cater's book to bring that phenomenon closer to home. He me...
Pity Wellington’s choices in Mayoral election (and news coverage?) 16 Jul 2013 | 06:10 am
The DomPost this morning refers to an email which shows mayoral candidate John Morrison wanted to keep the previous Chief Executive if he would undertake to 'decimate' CCOs. As reported: "The counci...
Inequality – Robert Wade and corporate governance 15 Jul 2013 | 05:05 am
Prof Robert Wade is here to tell his faithful what they want to hear about inequality. I've been following this issue with interest, since first reading the Spirit Level. But Q & A's Susan Woods gave ...
