Posts by william blake
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Breathless children. From the Groser.
Because it was meant to annoy and it did, sums up the attitude of the current administration to critique.
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And if Collins fails Key will still be a happy chappie.
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Polity: Hosking’s right about jobs, in reply to
I am no economist but we have the lowest interest rates since 1964, so where are the new industries looking to employ people in full time work?
MH is only half right about jobs being a critical issue, it’s the quality of jobs, not casualised, part time; working in poverty.
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"Well, Labour: one of the main reasons for unemployment is that interest rates are set too high for the real economy,"
4%. In the Neo liberal world do we need negative interest rates to have jobs?
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Hard News: The Police Ten 7 State, in reply to
You are probably right Lucy, as the cops deal with alcohol related harm on a daily basis, they would want policy and law formed by evidence to help their day to day policing. Their gagging says one of two things, they really, really don't like Dr Gilbert ( and his book patched is praised for its fairness) or they have something to hide about their policing of alcohol.
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Kypros Kypri seems to be the poster boy for the issue of academic gagging by government departments.
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Am I drawing too long a bow? Instead of this being the fattening of the wedge of a police state, is this the long arm of the liquor industry at work? The research is investigating the relationship of alcohol to harm and I can't really see the cops having a problem with this concept but the boozehounds have money to loose.
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OnPoint: The Whaledump Saga: Scooby-Doo Edition, in reply to
Court rules Slater is not a journalist:
Court rules; if you poke a pig it will grunt.
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OnPoint: The Whaledump Saga: Scooby-Doo Edition, in reply to
Mandy is a woman of many talents, but you are a true friend for running interference.
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