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Joseph Ward's 'Biden moment' bisected 1925 to 1933 period, enabling 1929 and most of 1930 to be relatively good years for New Zealand in the midst of a disastrous run of circumstance.
In May, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) released a report that unabashedly embraced the role of AI in influencing the way states govern. It is the accompanying document to Blair’s own address given at the Future of Britain Conference.
The conflict is unlikely to be won on the battlefield; both sides have too much skin in the game. Peace will require diplomacy; diplomacy means talking. This childish refusal to talk to each other must end.
Ian Powell discusses the conflict between the government’s decision to repeal new world-leading tobacco controls and the medical ethics of doctors working in senior Health New Zealand positions.
Far from this being incredible, such acts of violence speckle and blood US politics. Candidates have been previously gunned down in cold blood. Presidents, whether going to the theatre or appearing in public motorcades, have been very publicly assassinated.
The French system has one complicating quirk that distinguishes it from its New Zealand antecedent, and that's what allowed the Rally France ("far right") party/alliance to (disingenuously) claim that it was robbed in last Sunday's final vote.