Insights
Transparency, please
An organisation confident in its recommendations should not fear transparency about its modelling.
Month: February 2021
Newsroom
Building for an ageing population
These sober findings put debates around New Zealand’s housing crisis into a different perspective. As bad as the housing market situation is today, there is worse to come if we do not unlock the supply side of the housing market now.
Insights
Mastering the art of Democracy
Mastering ‘Democracy’ was easier than I had thought. I just had to leave all my principles and beliefs behind.
The New Zealand Herald
Don’t know much about history?
New Zealand students deserve a better understanding of history, including their own but not limited to it.
Insights
The government’s housing toolbox
We can only hope that the replacement of the RMA will give the government new tools for its housing toolbox.
Newsroom
EU vaccines disaster shreds Commission’s credibility
The EU’s vaccination procurement has been an unmitigated disaster. But will anyone take responsibility?
Uncategorised
The Tacitus temptation
Anyone wishing for an anti-Trump, an anti-Johnson or an anti-Bolsonaro could not dream up a more impressive figure like Jacinda Ardern. If she did not exist, she would have to be invented.
Insights
Simulation of life
After many attempts at ‘Democracy’, I am happy to cut our political leaders some slack. I would never want their job.