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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thestandard.org.nz | Frank Macskasy |David Slack |Patrick Reynolds |Geoffrey Miller
In the past two decades, election results in western Europe, Australasia, and North America have been framed as a crisis of the left. It’s more a case of misidentified success that’s holding the left back, than a primrose path to a tragedian graveyard. The performance of social democratic parties has, on average, been marked by a tremendous decline across many democracies, from a vote share of nearly 40% to below 20%. Europe’s left decline has been fast, but it’s common elsewhere.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thestandard.org.nz | Frank Macskasy |David Slack |Patrick Reynolds |Geoffrey Miller
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 14th, 2025 - No comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Bernard Hickey |Nick Rockel |Patrick Reynolds
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | David Farrier |Nick Rockel |Patrick Reynolds |Bernard Hickey
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, September 17th, 2024 - No comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |Patrick Reynolds |Bernard Hickey |Richard Harman
The Wright Family Foundation, which runs BestStart, among others, claimed $26.9 million in subsidies, of which $25m was for the childcare chain, which has 260 centres around the country. "The question is, to what extent have their revenues been diminished by Covid-19? They will have no trouble in generating income given the demand for their services nationwide.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |Patrick Reynolds |Bernard Hickey |Richard Harman
This is an excerpt from Mountain Tui’s Substack. David Farrar, a co-founder of Taxpayers Union, who he remains in lock-step with, has “resigned” his research firm, Curia, from The Research Association of New Zealand (RANZ). For those of you who don’t know, RANZ is NZ’s only professional standards and industry group “dedicated to professional providers and users of research, data and insights. The Research Association New Zealand (RANZ) brand is a trust-mark ..
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Nick Rockel |Bernard Hickey |Patrick Reynolds
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | Bernard Hickey |Nick Rockel |Patrick Reynolds |David Slack
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |Bernard Hickey |Richard Harman |Patrick Reynolds
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |Bernard Hickey |Richard Harman |Patrick Reynolds
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, July 16th, 2024 - 20 comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
