What is the main problem facing New Zealand today? It is the rather patronising attitudes of the suburban white upper-middle-class towards Maori, where Maori are not seen as ‘equals’ but as an unfortunate group who need to be helped by benevolent people who know what is best. All very “White
As I write this, the song “1999” by Prince is playing through my headphones and it certainly sums up what must have been happening in the Scott Morrison household in recent days. Had he been re-elected, he would have continued being – horror of horrors – a target for the media and
Information Opinion August 1973: Prime Minister Norman Kirk returned from a virtue-signalling overseas trip spent pontificating to everyone about how morally wicked they were compared to him by demanding a nuclear weapons ban (or some such twaddle). A few hours later he was interviewed by some press gallery hack asking
Being a rather modest, self-effacing sort of fellow who helps old ladies to cross streets and pets cats, I am always happy to assist with solving problems. To date my articles on The BFD have solved the climate crisis (there isn’t one) and poverty (the poor man should imitate
The colourful Sydney identity Graham “Richo” Richardson, who many of you may know from Sky News Australia, was once the Secretary of the New South Wales Labor party (this was 40-odd years ago). He, like Paul Keating, Neville Wran, and other senior ALP figures at that time in Sydney, was
Information Opinion We have all heard the recent left-wing fad for protecting us all against “disinformation” – the hand-wringing about ‘truth’ being widely disseminated throughout the population. Various left-wing academics and Marxist lawyers are, probably as we speak, dear reader, thinking of ways around pesky things like ‘freedom of speech’. Except
Every day a survey sails into my inbox; I complete it and receive “points” that can be redeemed for vouchers in due course. In the last eight years of completing surveys, I have accumulated sufficient points and vouchers to purchase 63 Agatha Christie novels and all Quentin Tarantino movies on
Another year, another budget presented by another government where the worst people get handed money that has been stolen from the best people. Instead of this being rightly condemned as wickedness, it is seen as somehow ‘virtuous’ and only right and proper: what I call “The New Zealand Disease”. Frankly
Information Opinion Today I have been hiding under the table with a bag over my head due to having scored the most ‘own’ of embarrassing own goals – to hoots of laughter from my dearly beloved. It all began on Thursday when I got an email out of the blue from
Information Opinion Nothing contained in this opinion piece constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, or endorsement. It should not be taken as professional and/or financial advice. Just over a week ago a small event occurred that I didn’t pick up on until earlier today when it was drawn to my
Capitalist In recent days there has been a suggestion that New Zealand will introduce a wealth tax. In typically ignorant fashion it’s portrayed by socialists as a way to eliminate poverty – (I burst out laughing too, dear reader). Apparently, we are living in some Charles Dickens novel come to
Capitalist Information Opinion The reason it is important for us – (you and I, dear reader; the “good guys”) – to keep up the fight for freedom and moral righteousness; to not give up when the forces of evil and wickedness win elections or do something completely revolting, has been demonstrated rather
Information Opinion There has been a lot of hand wringing and infantile shrieks of outrage in the last day or so about Nadia Lim, founder of My Food Bag, being described as “a little bit of Eurasian fluff” by businessman Simon Henry. The usual suspects are having an attack of
Capitalist Information Opinion In the heyday of the New York Cosa Nostra (or “Mafia”), which began around 1931 and lasted for 30 years or so, a very odd situation sprang up. [What is known as] the Gambino crime family had as its head a man called Vincent Mangano. From what
Capitalist Information Opinion Like many folks, I have been following the news reports surrounding the gerrymander proposal for local body elections in Rotorua which even the Attorney General cannot pretend is justified. One presumes the intention is for a socialist local body power grab in perpetuity? Perhaps they think that
