Insights
Howard’s lesson
China’s President Xi Jinping once said that Soviet Communism collapsed because its ideals and beliefs had been shaken. Would he not expect the same of countries unwilling to stand up for their own ideals and beliefs?
Month: April 2021
Insights
A bold health package
There is no doubt the package, announced by Health Minister Andrew Little is bold.
Newsroom
A Marxist critique of the lifestyle left
There is only one regret I had after reading Sahra Wagenknecht’s new book. Despite many furious disagreements with many of her views, I wished it was available in English. It would shake up and enrich our political debates in a way no German communists since Marx and Engels have done.
Insights
Incentives on the agenda
Between a policy idea and its political take-up, many years can pass. But that makes it even more satisfying when it eventually happens.
The New Zealand Herald
The politics of legal sausage-making
The business of legislation is murky. As the saying goes, “Laws are like sausages: Better not to see them being made”.
Newsroom
When time stood still
If Europe cannot even tackle the relatively straightforward question of whether to have DST – and if it rather hopes that such issues would go away by ignoring them, it does not bode well for the EU as an institution.