ProfAnanish
@ProfAnanish
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Author; Professor; Commentator and Purveyor of common sense in a world desperately in need of some.
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined April 2020
For those interested:.The election was fine. Labour stuffed up. That is why they lost. Deal with it.
bassettbrashandhide.com
With power about to change hands, I see more and more commentary about how this election was somehow unfair. There was Rob Campbell, Chancellor of AUT pontificating in the Herald that this election...
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Some thoughts on the state of NZ journalism over on LinkedIn. This seems to have struck a chord with a huge amount of engagement. Feel free to check it out.
linkedin.com
In this postmortem of the Labour debacle, this journalist says: "...many Aucklanders still harbour resentment over that lengthy lockdown and used their votes to punish Labour. It was still the right...
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Yesterday, the team of 5 million spoke loud and clear and made obvious that they wanted no part of the mendacity and divisiveness of the last government. What a gigantic repudiation of the hypocrisy and unkindness.
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I want to give a shout out to my Covid Plan B colleagues. We went through some difficult times at the behest of this government and their lackeys. But we persevered and it is gratifying to see that Kiwis have rejected the lies and the authoritarianism of the Labour government.
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Thankfully, our long nightmare is over. I am sure I will find plenty of fault with the NatACT government. But the mendacity, vileness and incompetence of this last government was so extra-ordinary that I feel as if a great weight has been lifted tonight.
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Claim that New Zealand saved 20,000 lives is inaccurate and meaningless. I explain why here: .
bassettbrashandhide.com
In a recent article in the New Zealand Medical Journal, Michael Baker and his co-authors claim that New Zealand saved at least 20,000 lives from Covid death. This article has received a fair amount...
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RT @aniobrien: Really sad. Would’ve thought Ayesha would be above this. Hipkins got Covid that’s why the original debate isn’t going ahead.….
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RT @TrudiNewZealand: ACT calls for Royal Commission into COVID-19 to open for public submissions
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Last year, the Government announced an inquiry into the health and economic response to the pandemic.
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Ummm. sorry to disappoint you.
@4crosspurposes @ProfAnanish He’s obviously not a professor. In the US teachers at uni are called “Professor”. I once taught for a US organisation based in California and was called “Professor” when I was a teacher. Sad if he’s a teacher though, as he’s spreading misinformation.
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Is James Shaw "very smart"? If so, then what is he doing in the Green Party? 😃.
@ProfAnanish Its possible at most universities if you’re very smart.
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Or the "world beating" Covid response! What happened to that hubris?.
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Despicable but "incredible"? Saudi Arabia butchered Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, Putin routinely kills dissidents in other countries and the US even kills its own citizens (Anwar al awlaki) on foreign soil. Another example, I guess, that India is now a player on the global scene!.
Incredible news out of Canada.
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Why is much of our policy making based on back-of-the-envelope calculations? Our policy makers can and must do better than this. My take on National's tax cuts and general policy making in NZ.
thepress.co.nz
OPINION: Why is it acceptable for political parties to say, “we’ll cut a billion here, spend a billion there and our rough calculations suggest that we will be all right”?
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I have never heard of anyone getting a Master's degree without getting a Bachelor's degree since the latter is a pre-requisite for the former. How did James Shaw achieve this? Is this even possible? Did he get an undergrad somewhere else?.
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Come October, Winston Peters will almost certainly be returning to Parliament. There is a simple reason for this. He has capitalized on the rage against vaccine mandates. I offer some thoughts on this matter here:
bassettbrashandhide.com
On October 14th, Winston Peters will most likely be back in Parliament. The reason for this support is simple: he showed up at the Wellington protests. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, the...
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RT @NZFreeSpeech: The Govt wants to overhaul content regulation. Apparently, our censorship laws aren't fit for purpose- but maybe censorsh….
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Donald Trump is a grifter, liar, narcissist, adulterer and yet he remains the front-runner for the Republican nomination. He has a real shot at becoming President again in 2024. How and why? Thoughts here:
bassettbrashandhide.com
Many of us find it hard to understand the appeal of Donald Trump. Trump is a grifter, liar, narcissist, adulterer and yet he remains the front-runner for the Republican nomination. He has a real shot...
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RT @GuyForsyth5: Many thanks to my co-authors and supervisors, @DrQueue and @ProfAnanish, for their help and support. .
frontiersin.org
Psychological research repeatedly identifies two dimensions of political values. Recent work argues that these dimensions reflect the dual evolutionary found...
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RT @BJPolS: #OpenAccess from our latest issue -. Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Predict Divergent Responses to #COVID1….
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Students are disappearing from our classrooms. How should we respond? Some thoughts here: .
theconversation.com
With the pandemic-fuelled shift to online learning, many tertiary students now miss out on the social skills critical to real-world success. That could have implications for their degrees.
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