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Would You like to Win a Silver Annual Membership?

Thanks to a generous BFD member, whitenoise, we have a Silver Annual membership to give away. All readers have a chance to win it including those currently on a Basic or Bronze membership. This is your chance to finally gain access to our superb Insight Politics articles. To make it

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This Is a Battle We Can Win with Your Help

Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister

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One of These Digital Platforms Is Not like the Other

The BFD is 95% powered by member dollars and the remaining 5% comes from ad revenue. The Spinoff doesn’t have genuine subscriptions because all their content is free to read. Take a look at the true source of their funding. Hint, it is not their readership. Last year The

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Would You like to Win a Silver Annual Membership?

Thanks to a generous BFD member, whitenoise, we have a Silver Annual membership to give away. All readers have a chance to win it including those currently on a Basic or Bronze membership. This is your chance to finally gain access to our superb Insight Politics articles. To make it

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Help Us to Keep the Lights on at the BFD

Unicorn farts cannot power our platform and our unique content cannot be paid for with fairy dust. We 100% rely on YOU our dear readers to fund our content and platform that you all enjoy so much. We know that you are a fan of The BFD and that you

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Free Taste of an Insight Politics article by Nathan Smith

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Nathan Smith. How to Win a Holy War When people say “The Science,” they are aligning themselves with the

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Would You like to Win a Silver Annual Membership?

Thanks to a generous BFD member, whitenoise, we have a Silver Annual membership to give away. All readers have a chance to win it including those currently on a Basic or Bronze membership. This is your chance to finally gain access to our superb Insight Politics articles. To make it

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MyBFD Makes It Easier for Members to Interact

MyBFD is our second platform that we created to extend the BFD community and to make it easier for members to interact with other members away from the public glare of General Debate and Backchat. The community at MyBFD is open to all members with Bronze level and above. ( **This

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Would You like to Win a Silver Annual Membership?

Thanks to a generous BFD member, whitenoise, we have a Silver Annual membership to give away. All readers have a chance to win it including those currently on a Basic or Bronze membership. This is your chance to finally gain access to our superb Insight Politics articles. To make it

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Treat Yourself to a Silver Membership

You don’t know what you are missing out on. Below is what a Silver level membership will give you. * Access to Insight Politics articles as well as ad-free viewing of the entire site. * Access to SonovaMin and BoomSlang’s fantastic cartoons: Access to our puzzles, Codecracker, Sudoku and Crossword.

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The BFD is seeking motivated, concise, reliable, and professionally-minded writers. Ideally, we prefer articles of 400-600 words in length. If you feel that the subject requires a longer post please keep it under 1000 words, (ideally under 800). Local news stories are as welcome as anything to do with sport

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A Free Taste: An Article by Chris Trotter

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter We Are All Maori – With a Small ‘M’ something very strange has happened on the left of

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Would You like to Win a Silver Annual Membership?

Thanks to a generous BFD member, whitenoise, we have a Silver Annual membership to give away. All readers have a chance to win it including those currently on a Basic or Bronze membership. This is your chance to finally gain access to our superb Insight Politics articles. To make it

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If you are a regular reader of The BFD the easiest way to get your daily fix is to sign up to our FREE daily newsletter called the Daily Digest. It contains all the day’s articles complete with a photo and the first paragraph of each article so that

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