How You Can Dodge the Fuel Tax Rise
We are very pleased to announce a new service for ALL readers of The BFD. The BFD in partnership with GCo Fuels has created a discounted fuel option. With the government removing the 25c per litre fuel subsidy , and the resulting significant increase in fuel prices from 1 July 2023,
Car Crash Is a Perfect Metaphor for This Government
And so the Ardern/Hipkins regime loses yet another minister, this time in a drunken road-side car crash, ending the political career of Justice Minister Kiritapu Allan. It seems a rather too perfect metaphor for a government that promised so much and delivered so little. A dent in the
The Real Life Grizzly Adams
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll almost certainly remember The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams on the telly. I never watched it myself, but, by cultural osmosis, I still know about John Adams and Gentle Ben. What I certainly didn’t know is the real story
Just Another Day in Jihad
Trying to discuss religously motivated violence these days nearly always follows the same tedious script of whataboutism. But what about… Almost always, of course, the whataboutism of choice is something that conveniently bashes Christianity. Whatabout the Crusades? Whatabout the Inquisition? As Malcolm Lambert points out, in Crusade and Jihad, the
A Popular Spectre Is Stalking Europe
Remember the shrieking headlines about “fascism!” when Giorgia Meloni was elected Italian PM? Somehow, though, for all the pearl-clutching by the mainstream media, the blackshirts have conspicuously failed to march on Rome or anything. That isn’t deterring the mainstream media one whit, though. They’re still gibbering about
If This Is Their Best, the Worst Will Be Hilarious
If the past two weeks have been the “best yet” for the Yes campaign in the “Indigenous Voice” referendum, then they really are rooted, to use a great Australian vernacular. After all, the past fortnight saw the release of polls showing that even women voters are deserting them in droves.
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How You Can Dodge the Fuel Tax Rise
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Back Doing What I Enjoy
It will come as no surprise to readers that I am enjoying what I do, and especially so now that I have my own radio show at Reality Check Radio. I enjoy talking about politics with people and I hope that is coming through in my interviews. Over the weekend
Bringing a Mammal to a Dino Fight
Reading old science fiction is an often eye-opening glimpse of long-discarded scientific theories. Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, for instance, refers to the idea that continents grew from atolls. Whole libraries of SF were built on the long-debunked notion of Martian canals. The
Attack of the Mutant Space Sex Monkeys!
Humans are, let’s face, a species of outrageously horny monkeys. We no sooner get our hands on something than we’re trying to figure out how to insert it into ourselves, or vice-versa. Or some way to use it to get off. Within years of Gutenberg’s printing
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‘I Wanna Be Just Like Jacinda’, Says Zippy
There’s no imported idea so bad or demonstrably so that the Albanese government isn’t prepared to fail at it, too. From nonsensically parroting the American “First Nations”, to “Net Zero”, there’s nothing that’s proved so disastrous that Albo and crew aren’t eagerly shouting, “We want
Net Zero Reality Comes to NZ
Enjoying your Net Zero this winter, New Zealand? I mean, sure, you’ve only just been forcefully shoved down the first few steps of the long, hard stairway to Net Zero Hell, but already New Zealanders are getting a taste of just what kind of future the Climate Cult are