Polity by Rob Salmond

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Polity: Four cents on Brexit, Fonterra, and New Zealand

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  • oga,

    This was the best analysis of why the UK should leave the EU that I read recently.

    The Left and the EU: Why Cling to This Reactionary Institution?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 47 posts Report

  • Joe Wylie, in reply to Hilary Stace,

    From my childhood I remembered Lodge as rather blokey mainly from his cartoons in the Sports Post.

    As a member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes my father would occasionally head off to "the lodge" for some male bonding. Because Neville Lodge's work appeared under the title "Lodge Laughs", I assumed that his jokes were intended to be enjoyed in that blokey context.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to izogi,

    Tales of Two-Fisted Polymaths!!

    Okay, a diversion. ...

    ...and a damned fine diversion it is too - just perfect for a sick-abed biped... thank you for this.

    The 'Economy Model' reminds me of NZ's own

    "MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer) also known as the Phillips Hydraulic Computer and the Financephalograph..."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • izogi, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    ...and a damned fine diversion it is too - just perfect for a sick-abed biped... thank you for this.

    Neat. If it's of interest, Kathryn Ryan interviewed the author/artist last year.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 1142 posts Report

  • andin, in reply to Matthew Hooton,

    By the tenor of your post you seem to be presuming I didnt read that jargon filled facebook post. Is that your intuition again?

    raglan • Since Mar 2007 • 1891 posts Report

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to izogi,

    If it’s of interest...

    ...backatcha - this book may well be grist to your mill (and Babbage's!):
    Music and the Making of Modern Science
    By Peter Pesic

    Overview
    In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right.

    https://mitpress.mit.edu/music-science
    Auckland Library doesn't have a copy (for shame!) but you could get it on interloan maybe from Chchch...
    otherwise AUT has the E-book if you have access.
    http://libsearch.aut.ac.nz/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1495850__SMusic%20and%20the%20Making%20of%20Modern%20Science__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=def

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Ianmac,

    Red meat gets in via the EU but the Brit producers/farmers resent NZ meat. So will there now be moves to block meat into Britain?

    Bleneim • Since Aug 2008 • 135 posts Report

  • Matthew Hooton, in reply to Rob Salmond,

    I thought your point was that the quota could be cut. I assumed this when I read: "I think there’s a real chance that Fonterra, and potentially other major agricultural exporters, will find themselves losing some of their EU access well before they gain any countervailing access to the UK."

    Auckland • Since Aug 2007 • 195 posts Report

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