@ProfAnanish

Author; Professor; Commentator and Purveyor of common sense in a world desperately in need of some.

 Auckland, New Zealand
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Joined April 2020
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For those interested: The election was fine. Labour stuffed up. That is why they lost. Deal with it. bassettbrashandhide.com/post…

ANANISH CHAUDHURI: Labour stuffed up. That’s why they lost. Deal with it.

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/posts/ananish-c…

Ghosts of long lockdown haunt Labour | Ananish Chaudhuri | 114 comments

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/post…

ANANISH CHAUDHURI: Claims about New Zealand saving 20,000 Covid lives are inaccurate and meaningless

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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Ani O'Brien
@aniobrien2 Oct 2023
Really sad. Would’ve thought Ayesha would be above this. Hipkins got Covid that’s why the original debate isn’t going ahead. This is a really yuck deliberate attempt to manipulate less engaged voters who don’t know this. Disinformation.
Ayesha Verrall@drayeshaverrall2 Oct 2023
Christopher Luxon committed to the Leaders debate so he should show up.
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Trudi
@TrudiNewZealand29 Sep 2023
ACT calls for Royal Commission into COVID-19 to open for public submissions newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…

The changes ACT wants to make to the COVID-19 Royal Commission

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. profiles.auckland.ac.nz/a-ch…
Bee @BeeBeaumont بي SendOdayToFrance@BeaumontBee18 Sep 2023
Replying to @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? 😃
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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!
Thomas Coughlan@coughlthom19 Sep 2023
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/a/nz-news/350…

To hold our politicians to account, we need to first understand what they’re promising

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/post….
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The Govt wants to overhaul content regulation. Apparently, our censorship laws aren't fit for purpose- but maybe censorship is the wrong path? Even if DIA gets its way (unlikely, given the public response) what happens when international platforms simply don't play ball?
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@TheZeitgeistNZ20 Aug 2023
CENSORSHIP ALERT: The New Zealand Government sent a letter to social media company Gab demanding they take down some linked content. Gab has refused. news.gab.com/2023/08/gab-sta…
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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/post….

ANANISH CHAUDHURI: The Abiding Appeal of Donald Trump

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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Many thanks to my co-authors and supervisors, @DrQueue and @ProfAnanish, for their help and support. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Predict Divergent Responses to #COVID19 - cup.org/3CLxmvs - @Arkyfish, @ProfAnanish & @DrQueue
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Students are disappearing from our classrooms. How should we respond? Some thoughts here: theconversation.com/with-cam…

With campus numbers plummeting due to online learning, do we need two categories of university...

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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