4 March 2011 The Honours UnitCabinet OfficeParliament BuildingsWellington Dear Sir/Madam I am writing to you in support of Sir William Gallagher’s nomination of Roger Kerr for a New Zealand Royal Honour. I have known Roger well since the late 1970s when as Director of one of Treasury’s economics divisions I worked with him and a […]
Sir Ralph Norris: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
9 March 2011 The Honours UnitCabinet OfficeParliament BuildingsWellington New Zealand Dear Sir, I am writing to support the nomination of Roger Kerr for an honour. I have known Roger for nearly twenty years from the time I first became a member of the New Zealand Business Roundtable of which I subsequently became Chairman. In that […]
Sir William Birch: Letter of support for nomination of Roger Kerr for royal honour
Sunday, 13 March 2020 The Prime MinisterParliament BuildingsWELLINGTON Dear John, I am writing to you to add my support to the nomination of Roger Kerr for the recognition of his outstanding work in the area of promoting a wider understanding of sound economic principles in business and the need to respect economic fundamentals across the […]
Don’t let COVID-19 dominate your life
President Trump’s tweets are far too often boneheaded, unhelpful and immediately forgettable. However, what he wrote following his discharge from Walter Reed was notable: It may have been better to have also said, “Take COVID-19 seriously”, but “Don’t let it dominate your life” is the same sort of argument many others, myself included, have been […]
New England Journal of Medicine embarrasses itself
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine signed by 35 editors is a thinly veiled attempt by the authors to call for President Donald Trump to be voted out of office for what they call his “dangerously incompetent” handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Especially coming from scientists, a standard of “dangerously incompetent” is […]
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