Ever since socialist ideology was buried in the 1980s by the near universal adoption of market economies, culminating at the decade’s end in the Soviet Union’s collapse, embittered left ideologues have resorted to language reinvention to mask their personal inadequacies as ongoing collective aspirations.

I recently blogged about Argentina’s near century long record of appalling economic management.

A nation, once believed to be destined to become the richest in the world, has instead been a non-stop disaster.

A month ago, Wall Street giant J.P Morgan ordered its senior staff back to their desks five days a week. Why the senior staff only? Analysis shows over and over again that the menial staff, allegedly working from home, are in fact doing no such thing. We know that as the nature of their work involves computers and this is easily analysed.

Historian Michael Bassett came into Parliament in 1972 from an academic background, holding fervent socialist views.

The above, a Stuff site heading, reproduced twice ironically just below their bragging item of employing 400 journalists (which I don’t believe). Nevertheless, this boast would impress more if they employed less purported journalists and a few more sub-editors who know how to spell. That aside, in the same item they say these 400 claimed journalists produce more than 200 articles a day; that is one per alleged journalist every two days, thus reinforcing the image of journos as bone idle.