A certain picture of a young Mr. Cameron standing alongside a old Tory Chancellor on an historic day is for some reason rather popular in the page hit statistics. Now that Dave is unfortunately back in Downing Street, it is perhaps time to once again pay tribute to the supreme economic literacy of Chancellor Lamont and his [...]
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For the Lols
Posted by Chris Nash on May 14, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/for-the-lols/
A response to Sir Roger Douglas
The University of Auckland’s Student Magazine “Craccum” this week published a guest column by ACT party MP Sir Roger Douglas in which he argued the case for his Private Members bill (due for its first reading in the NZ House of Representatives) which calls for the possible reintroduction of a lower minimum wage for workers aged 16 and [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on March 8, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/a-response-to-sir-roger-douglas/
Gordon Saved Us
The First of the January-February Blogs, written the first week in February 2010 For much of my time in NZ, while the British Pound Sterling nosedived against the Kiwi Dollar, I would mutter to myself; “Gordon will save us”. I have the utmost faith in the Prime Minister and the fantastic job he is doing. [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on February 21, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/gordon-saved-us/
A lesson from history
Whilst stuck in rural [i.e. no internet] Somerset, I passed some of the time reading an old book on US history. Flicking through the section covering the interwar period I came across a particular story which – while under completely different circumstances sounded strangely familiar… 1932 – War Veteran’s “march on Washington” “Politicians whom the gods [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on April 20, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/a-lesson-from-history/


