Notes related to presentation made on 9 May Thank you for the opportunity to present my submission on the CPTPA. My comments today support my submission. I think that the National Interest Analysis (NIA) is inadequate. The CPTPA NIA does not examine the impacts of risk to a government that decides to take democratic action. […]

Hold the date:  Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd 2018 at St Andrews on the Terrace. In developing the topic for this weekend we have visited the themes around the Winter Soltice, Matariki and the lecture series and subsequent publication  of “The Greening of Christianity” by the Rev. Professor Sir Lloyd Geering. In these […]

Just feeling failed by the NZ Herald and its ability to call out supposed lies with impunity. Here is the correspondence in relation to a recent complaint. Most unsatisfactory but a waste of time to go on or not? Any advice?  The Herald’s responses to my email are in red.  I note that Mike Hosking […]

This seemed like a worthwhile way to spend an hour or so. Will the NZ Herald be willing to correct a completely inaccurate article? ( Not that this kind of response wouldn’t be legitimate on any day of the week for a dozen or more articles with similarly careless and inaccurate reporting – but this […]

On 12 December 2017, Rethinking Economics and the New Weather Institute published ’33 Theses for an Economics Reformation’ to mark 500 years since the Catholic Reformation. The Theses, which were endorsed by students and economists and fixed with blutack 🙂 to the doors of the London School of Economics, are reproduced below. The action was taken as the […]