This week has seen something rather dramatic explode upon the political scene: for several weeks or months, various entities and people had been trying to keep a lid on this timebomb. That course of action is no longer tenable. I suspect it will inevitably lead to a by-election by Christmas
The British comedian Harry Enfield once brilliantly satirised Tony Blair and NewLabour MPs – particularly their ability to speak utter twaddle convincingly – in a most hilarious skit. It showed a NewLabour MP winning their seat at the 1997 UK General Election and giving the following victory speech: “Yesterday is gone and
Warning Satire There was a certain National MP who served in parliament between 1975 and ’87 and for several years was ‘missing in action’. He never visited a school, business, tourist attraction or much else in his electorate, never attended a public meeting or other event or met with constituents.
Information Opinion Yesterday I was at Countdown and did something which I always do at the supermarket, but am starting to get the impression it isn’t exactly commonplace. After packing into my trolley frozen chicken thighs, a sack of potatoes, milk, bread, flour, chewy bars, butter, several other items
Information Opinion I was watching the AM show on TV3 when something quite extraordinary occurred. A chap, complete with beard, was wearing a dress and being addressed as “Anne” as he explained a highly amusing ‘wish list’ for rental housing. Apparently he runs some commie protest organisation that was picketing
The usual suspects are at it again in Australia after Pauline Hanson refused to accept Acknowledgement of Country – a silly woke sop to Aborigines – and stormed out of the Senate chamber. It was brilliantly reported on the BFD by Lushington Brady on Thursday in an in-depth article. In recent weeks,
Information Opinion A story in the NZ Herald on Thursday singled out Michael Wood and Chris Hipkins as likely contenders to replace Ardern when she loses the 2023 general election. One presumes that if Ardern quits in the next few weeks (as I expect she will) her temporary replacement will
You know you’re truly a Mott The Hoople fan when you think Brain Capers was their best album. Which I do. And it is. An obscure album which flopped spectacularly – it sold about 7 copies worldwide when first released in November 1971 – and yet became compulsory listening for several
The rag-bag of nonentities, pygmies, incompetents and narcissists who constitute the Christchurch City Council voted 13 to 3 for the oft-discussed stadium project to proceed, although why it has a silly name of “tea trolley” or “tea cart” (or something like that) is beyond me. As a simple, unworldly country
One of the intriguing things about contemporary America is the vicious and unrelenting attacks on Joe Biden by the media in recent months. Clearly, his free ride is over. The constant gaffes, concerns about his mental state and his upcoming 80th birthday are all subject to a strong level of
Sir Robert Muldoon, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, always used to say that if you don’t have any enemies in politics then “you’re no bloody good“; oh so true – especially in his case when he caused certain people (of the Douglas, Bassett, Moore, Rowling variety) to waste
Information Opinion There are very few occasions in history when you can pinpoint a precise moment when significant changes took place. For well over a century New Zealand had been an affluent, rather pleasant nation at the edge of the British empire. Our standard of living had always been quite
Information Opinion Like many people, I have been disappointed by the demise of Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister. I had been a longtime supporter of Boris and his various activities on the way to the top job, never once doubting he would eventually reach Number 10. What is intriguing
In recent days I have had several articles published on The BFD which take a frightening view of the short term in New Zealand: the madness of the Ardern Government, the steering wheel in the hands of drunk teenagers with an IQ of about 2½, cliffs approaching. A question which
Information Opinion By far the worst former-communist country was Romania. When the regime fell at the end of 1989 and the world saw what they had been doing it was truly shocking. Wicked and evil doesn’t begin to describe it. What the commies had done to keep control was
For around a century, and rightly so, New Zealand was governed with the farming interests foremost in the minds of successive governments; what rural interests wanted – went. This ended with the “War on Farming” initiated by the Lange Government, continued by the Clark Government, and most notably in recent years
