Posts by Russell Brown
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Excellent column on the topic by Dita De Boni in the Herald.
She raises a good question: where are the results that say this works? Not the ideological assumptions; the data. Where are the successful instances? It's worth noting that the British pilot was closed down by the UK government last year.
This seems to be of a piece with the "social housing" gambit, in that it's characterised by a low degree of rigour and a high degree of magical thinking.
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to
its telling that in all interviews to date i havent heard one govt MP mention the outcomes for the actual people involved – all comments from govt have been focused solely on the $
It's immensely othering: "We'll stop these fringe-dwellers costing us all so much money."
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Hard News: Meet me at Camera 2: White, in reply to
That cartoon just got a link from the Huffington Post.
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Hard News: Meet me at Camera 2: White, in reply to
Also, it’s part of an obsession with language.
All that drives me nuts. But I wanted to put it aside and acknowledge the reality of being the default. As I said on the programme, my way in to it is through my sons and their reality – and believe me, few things make me angrier than petty pointscoring over "ableist" language.
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Hard News: Great New Zealand Argument: A…, in reply to
The revised dissertation has been posted on www.republican.co.nz, where comment is welcome.
How about I run it as a guest post on Public Address, with a link back to your website?
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to
Pardon me if I don’t find Kerry Bolton a credible reference on immigration, or indeed anything.
And I’m becoming very weary of jh’s single-issue obsessions over immigration and multiculturalism.
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Two more post-mortems:
Typically lovely writing by Hayden Donnell on the “viking funeral” among journalists that marked the death of Campbell Live.
And more on the existential anxiety in the journalism trade by Deborah Hill Cone.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to
I think the problem is that Russell Brown types live in a rarefied atmosphere. We go through a sorting early on in life and left-wing academics tend to hop in the lift to the top floor.
You may want to address your complaints to someone who is, or ever has been, a left-wing academic.
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