Category: Rights
And we are living in a neolib world and I am a neolib girl
Do you know what the Phillips Curve is? I didn’t. I mean I knew the basics of its output, but I didn’t know it had a name. It’s the relationship between inflation and unemployment.
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Erewhon: Where everyone is lazy and does drugs
RadioNZ (sorry RNZ) has a remarkable story up about New Zealand’s high level of immigration, and how this high level of immigration is actually bringing in a lot of low-skilled workers
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A Pox On Both Your Houses
If there’s one euphemism I’m sick of hearing it’s “property investment”.
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When are numbers racist?
By Morgan Godfery Some politicians seem to think that “data” exists in a privileged realm somewhere above politics and power relations. Data, according to Phil Twyford and others, enjoys the authority of objectivity.
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Leaving Pook Farm; Generation Rent Edition
My suspicions were first aroused when my property manager told me not to panic.
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American Political Batshit: With malice towards none
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
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Letter to White America
Dear White America For better or for worse, your country is the leader of the Western world.
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Reddit – Something IS going on here
Something rather big happened to the internet the other day.
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Baltimore of the same
There’s a whole lot of frustrated people in Baltimore right now. Not without reason either, it’s been a pretty frustrating few weeks.
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Yup, it’s creepy
Ah, yes. It’s just a bit of fun. Mucking around. A friendly gesture. How many times have we heard these old chestnuts when some bloke has been somehow inappropriate?
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Regarding “call-out culture” in the real world
A month or so ago, the brilliant Morgue wrote a wonderful piece about online call out culture. I’d like to take a look at something similar but not the same. Real-world call-outs.
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Why I don’t wear my wedding rings to job interviews
I’m (almost) 32. I am a healthy, fit, married woman. I work in fairly senior marketing and communications roles, in a world where, these days, most of my peers or higher level colleagues are men.
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John Oliver’s dick: a tall tale
You have probably already seen some – if not all – of the interview between John Oliver and renowned Government whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
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Left is right
If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative when you’re 30 you have no brain.
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Fisking Eleanor
So, hasn’t Eleanor Catton made a bit of a splash. In 18 months she’s gone from Cultural Golden Girl, praised by the Prime Minister as being super intelligent, to political pariah and one of those disgusting Green voters.
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And Islamophobia was never a problem ever again
The Sykes-Picot agreement is a thing. And it’s a thing that may be more responsible for current global issues than we realise.
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If you do not read this post then the terrorists will win
If we don’t continue to publish cartoons of Mohammad then the terrorists will have won!
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