Independent Analysis and Reportage
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism; Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Auckland border Guy Williams (Mountain Scene): Aucklanders in Queenstown before Christmas? 1 News: Govt ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 05 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-05-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 05 2021">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The global influenza epidemic of late 2016 to early 2018 was a pandemic in all but name. For the United States, see The Perfect Storm Behind This Year’s Nasty Flu Season, The Atlantic 14 Jan 2018; and Last year’s flu broke records for deaths and illnesses new CDC numbers show,Washington Post, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Influenza: Global Epidemic 2017 versus the Flu Season of 2019/20" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/keith-rankin-analysis-influenza-global-epidemic-2017-versus-the-flu-season-of-2019-20/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Influenza: Global Epidemic 2017 versus the Flu Season of 2019/20">Read more</a>
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Auckland, Govt management of Delta outbreak Richard Harman (Politik): Hipkins “detached from reality” (paywalled) ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 04 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-04-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 04 2021">Read more</a>
A View from Afar - In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will discuss two issues: the evolution of new generation attack drones; and the COP26 meeting in Glasgow this week. Specifically, Buchanan and Manning will unpack: Whether Geopolitics has railroaded a broad-based consensus of climate interventionism. Why Russia and China abandoned the Cop26 multilateral forum?
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Govt management of Delta outbreak Ian Powell (BusinessDesk): The politics of pandemic traffic ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 03 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-03-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 03 2021">Read more</a>
Influenza et.al.; charting normal to see Covid19 in context Analysis by Keith Rankin. So much of our analysis of the public health impact of Covid19 has been taken out of context. The officially reported case data are incomplete, and take little account of how these health impacts deviate from normal, or even what ‘normal’ is. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Influenza context for covid deaths in selected countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-influenza-context-for-covid-deaths-in-selected-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Influenza context for covid deaths in selected countries">Read more</a>
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Govt Covid management Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Auckland level 3, step 2 decision spells ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 02 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-02-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 02 2021">Read more</a>
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Environment, climate change, conservation Henry Cooke (Stuff): Climate change target nowhere near as ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 01 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/01/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-01-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 01 2021">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The first chart shows excess deaths in Germany for every year from 2015. (The chart is essentially the one that can be found here, on the Our World in Data website, though it uses three-period moving averages to smooth out some of the ‘random noise’ that inevitably accompanies such time-series data. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 deaths, the German case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-deaths-the-german-case/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 deaths, the German case">Read more</a>
SPECIAL REPORT by Selwyn Manning. This week, on October 27 to 28 Julian Assange appeared before a United Kingdom court defending himself against an appeal that, if successful, would see him extradited to the United States of America to face a raft of indictments that ultimately could see him spend the rest of his life ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/29/special-report-assumptions-vs-facts-how-the-assange-case-confronts-us-all/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: Assumptions Vs Facts – How the Assange Case Confronts Our Biases">Read more</a>
Op-Ed by António Guterres, UN Secretary-General. The climate crisis is a code red for humanity. World leaders will soon be put to the test at the UN Climate Conference — known as COP26 — in Glasgow. Their actions — or inactions — will show their seriousness about addressing this planetary emergency. The warning signs are hard ... <a title="Op-Ed: The Glasgow Climate Test by António Guterres UN Secretary-General" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/29/op-ed-the-glasgow-climate-test-by-antonio-guterres-un-secretary-general/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: The Glasgow Climate Test by António Guterres UN Secretary-General">Read more</a>