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May 27, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. Problems make the world go round. Many of us – maybe the majority of workers, and certainly the majority of well-paid workers – earn our living addressing problems. A problem-free world would represent a major crisis for modern social-capitalism. (Yet standard economic theory continues to present the productive economy as a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Narrow Vision: Subsidised Cars and Street Immunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/keith-rankin-essay-narrow-vision-subsidised-cars-and-street-immunity/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Narrow Vision: Subsidised Cars and Street Immunity">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Major shakeup of electoral rules could be coming Get ready for a big debate on how to improve democracy in New Zealand. On Tuesday, Justice Minister Kris Faafoi announced the review panel that will oversee a once-in-a-generation overhaul of electoral rules, including how political parties are funded. The announcement ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Major shakeup of electoral rules could be coming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-major-shakeup-of-electoral-rules-could-be-coming/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Major shakeup of electoral rules could be coming">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Many of the reported counts of Covid19 cases and deaths now better reflect reporting variations rather than actual health data. These charts indicate the new stories that are increasingly falling under the international media radar. I show both the ‘bigger countries’ (with populations of more than half a million), and ‘all ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Country Update: Week ending 22 May 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-country-update-week-ending-22-may-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Country Update: Week ending 22 May 2022">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Grant Robertson’s “sweet moderation” Grant Robertson is a big fan of British socialist folk-punk singer Billy Bragg. The finance minister even wrote an opinion column last year that started and ended with lyrics from Bragg’s iconic song “Between the Wars”, with its key line “Sweet moderation; Heart of this ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Grant Robertson’s “sweet moderation”" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/25/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-grant-robertsons-sweet-moderation/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Grant Robertson’s “sweet moderation”">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads today – to further breakdown or breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. Since the Economic and Social Commission for Asia ... <a title="OP-ED: Reclaiming our future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/op-ed-reclaiming-our-future/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reclaiming our future">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. We know that New Zealand has one of the world’s lowest mortality outcomes, so far, in the Covid19 pandemic. (So has North Korea.) It’s still far too early to access the costs incurred – loss of utility enjoyed by actual and ‘would-have-been’ New Zealand residents – and is also too early ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: New Zealand deaths coming into winter 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-new-zealand-deaths-coming-into-winter-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: New Zealand deaths coming into winter 2022">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning examine the Implications of the Russia-Ukrainian conflict and how it impacts on regional security architecture.
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May 13, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Modern ‘western’ governments are known as ‘liberal democracies’. While each political party in a liberal democracy has a ‘policy agenda’ which it would like to implement, only single-party governments have a realistic opportunity to fully implement their agenda; and they typically need multiple terms of single party (or near single party) ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Liberal Democracy in the new neonationalist era: The Three ‘O’s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/13/keith-rankin-essay-liberal-democracy-in-the-new-neonationalist-era-the-three-os/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Liberal Democracy in the new neonationalist era: The Three ‘O’s">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning bring you a programme in three parts. First a roundup of Putin’s V-Day speech; they then evaluate a raft of election results that have occurred around the world; and then deep dive into the PRC-Solomons security deal.
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May 6, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The countries shown here have rates of Covid19 mortality comparable with each other, and – with one exception – have recent ‘excess deaths’ data. We should note that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has just released its world Covid19 mortality estimates for the pandemic so far, suggesting a death toll ‘from’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths from March 2021 in Comparable Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/06/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-deaths-from-march-2021-in-comparable-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths from March 2021 in Comparable Countries">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. There is more than one useful perspective on the present Russian war in Ukraine. None of these put the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin’s Russian war machine in anything other than an egregious light; Mr Putin is a geopolitical warrior of the worst order. He believes that he is waging a war ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Secession tribulations, and the United States’ Civil War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/04/keith-rankin-essay-secession-tribulations-and-the-united-states-civil-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Secession tribulations, and the United States’ Civil War">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The new (though not unfamiliar to older New Zealanders) crisis of 2022 (and most likely beyond) has become, alternatively, a ‘cost of living’ or an ‘inflation’ crisis. The public discussion treats these two ‘enemies of the people’ as one and the same thing. But they are not. Indeed such conflation is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/21/keith-rankin-essay-problem-of-price-increases-cost-of-living-versus-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’">Read more</a>
