Peter Byard Davis
@PeterByardDavis
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Ex-prof, recovering workaholic, quiz kid. Social democrat, humanist, policy wonk. RNZ/BBC/Guardian, NS/Economist/FT. Culture vulture, birder, X-c skier. Travels
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Joined September 2011
Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries
healthpolicy-watch.news
After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is "moving into
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“The TrumpRx website won’t slash drug prices — but this will”. This person argues pharma industry should create fewer drugs with clearer health benefits. At present there are many expensive drugs with questionable health outcomes. This could reduce prices.
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"Europe Needs A Public Investment Revolution To Secure Its Economic Future". With debate about public debt/investment, and NZLP's first policy contributions, this from experts in the EU who argue that it can crowd in private and meet investment criteria.
socialeurope.eu
Boosting infrastructure spending would stimulate growth and employment without threatening debt sustainability.
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"Insurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study". Neither employment nor insurance coverage increased. An ideologically-driven experiment at considerable social cost.
bmj.com
Objective To understand how health insurance coverage and employment changed among working age adults with low incomes in Georgia, the first state to implement Medicaid expansion with work requirem...
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“Comparing companion open access journals to their traditional journal counterparts”. Fewer citations.
tandfonline.com
Many traditional journals have launched companion open access (cOA) journals with similar scope and aims. These journals seek better article dissemination through removal of the paywall and use of ...
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Jewish community leaders rise to the occasion across many countries and professions.
theguardian.com
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
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"Doctors guilty of serious misconduct abroad are working in the UK—how are they slipping through the cracks?". Failure to carry out simple internet-based searches. Let's hope the NZ system is better, although many overseas-hired doctors move on.
bmj.com
The GMC has vowed to act after an investigation highlighted a failure to vet overseas doctors applying for NHS jobs. Jane Feinmann reports A total of 22 doctors on the General Medical Council...
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"NHS medical negligence costs reach £60bn as maternity payouts soar". The UK should learn from the NZ scheme that does not require proof of fault and is far cheaper and effective than anything on offer in the UK.
bmj.com
Total liabilities for medical negligence in the NHS now have reached £60bn (€69bn; $81bn), the government’s public spending watchdog has found. The figure—more than four times the sum recorded nearly...
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Paradise Lost: New Zealand's Crisis Of State And Identity
socialeurope.eu
As economic stagnation meets constitutional discord, the remote archipelago faces fundamental questions about its future as a unified nation.
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Hard to be optimistic about NZ's long term prospects when the govt holds a press conference talking about the plan to dump 50 billion dollars into the giant money hole and the media reporting is like "Three Key Facts About Government Plan to Fill Major Hole"
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A reminder of the very poor quality advice and policy process that led to the adoption of the ridiculously low discount rates now being used, at Tsy’s instigation, in evaluating govt spending etc proposals. https://t.co/wKCo6dhb1K
croakingcassandra.com
A couple of months ago now I wrote a post about the new set of discount rates government agencies are supposed to use in undertaking cost-benefit analysis, whether for new spending projects or for …
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The so-called yellow line between Israel- and Hamas-held territory is “unmarked and difficult for Gaza residents to heed,” but Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians including four children when their vehicle was said to have crossed it.
nytimes.com
A round of violence on Sunday was short-lived, but analysts expect more tensions between Israel and Palestinian militants that will put the truce under strain.
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📷 New report out now: 'Age-Proofing Aotearoa. Rethinking our infrastructure for an ageing population' To mark the launch, our Deputy Director and report author, Kali Mercier, joined Jack Tame on Q+A to discuss the findings and what they mean for New Zealand’s future. 📰 Read
1news.co.nz
"We're not really planning for that in terms of our infrastructure provision at all," a researcher says when asked if New Zealand is ready for an ageing population.
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🌍💉💔Global health is drowning in agencies—but starved of funding. At the 2025 World Health Summit in Berlin, global health leaders called for a rethink: fewer agencies, clearer mandates, and more sustainable financing. Leaders like @DrTedros, @Winnie_Byanyima, @ninawarken,
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Great work by @GreaterAuckland! The Government's RONS projects will bankrupt the country if they're allowed to proceed. https://t.co/P8A6zCCCgi And of all of them, the proposed new Basin Reserve project has the worst Benefit-Cost Ratio #nzpol
greaterauckland.org.nz
The government’s Yesterday’s funding announcement on preparatory work includes this for the East West link: Funding of $102m to progress design, consenting and route protection. Hamilton Southern...
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"Why claims of ‘transformational’ school reading improvement are premature". Only a minority of the children were the same ones measured at two points in time, and their changes did not suggest major improvement. https://t.co/G6Tme8bZAp via @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com
Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the same as reading.
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How independent are our research and other supposedly arm's length agencies from politicisation. This analysis shows that only one of 8 agencies in the UK is truly on all 7 criteria applied. Recently NZ's research agencies came under the control of MBIE. https://t.co/d3xTlL3dgh
blogs.lse.ac.uk
New research finds the arm's length bodies that underpin UK research run the risk of politicisation unless they are put on a firmer footing.
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Behind NZ Pork’s campaign to keep farrowing crates – Part 2
newsroom.co.nz
Officials worked alongside industry on new pig welfare standards, while the independent advisory body was sidelined.
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Dramatic scenes in Hawdon River valley, Arthur's Pass National Park, Canterbury. Any day is a good day in the valley, regardless of the weather.
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We are excited to launch our most recent report with @WspNz, 'Age-Proofing Aotearoa. Rethinking our infrastructure for an ageing population'. The country is in a period of profound demographic change. Within 25 years the number of people aged 65+ may double, and the number of
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