Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger has died. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360854062/had-wonderful-life-former-prime-minister-jim-bolger-dies-aged-90 (View Post)

Evening all :) Two weeks from an election in the Netherlands and the latest seat projection from the Verian pollster as follows (changes from ther 2023 election): PVV: 31 (-6) Green/Labour: 25 (nc) C… (View Post)

Morning all :) Rather like the Northern Rock crisis showed our dependence on a viable banking system and the inherent risk to both economic and social order from a failure of that system, yesterday's… (View Post)

Not actually true, the number of libraries has fallen from about 4,600 in 2002 to about 4,000 now so not perhaps the widescale closures implied. Libraries were to a degree protected by statute and th… (View Post)

Perhaps but that's how the debate has been framed for three or four decades. Direct taxation can only go one way as raising taxes is akin to selling your grandparents. After the July 2024 election, I… (View Post)