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Akin to a School Camp
NZ

Akin to a School Camp

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

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Party Like It’s 1999

Party Like It’s 1999

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

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There Is Nothing New under the Sun

There Is Nothing New under the Sun

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

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For My Next Miracle
NZ

For My Next Miracle

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

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Conservative Parties Need a Good Purge

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

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Disinformation They Are Not Telling You About

Disinformation They Are Not Telling You About

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

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Fake Polling, or How to Skew Results Your Way

Fake Polling, or How to Skew Results Your Way

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

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The New Zealand Disease
NZ

The New Zealand Disease

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

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A Moment Frozen in Time
NZ

A Moment Frozen in Time

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

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The Offer

The Offer

Capitalist A truly marvellous series called The Offer has been released online, and I just had to review it. One of the great things about the modern world (people who talk about “the good old days” really don’t know what they are talking about, folks!), is the ability to

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2022 Is Looking Remarkably Like 2008 (And 1974)

2022 Is Looking Remarkably Like 2008 (And 1974)

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

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The Good Guys Always Win

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

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My Food Bag a Dead Duck

My Food Bag a Dead Duck

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

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And – Technically – Pigs Can Fly
NZ

And – Technically – Pigs Can Fly

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

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My Faith in Common Sense

My Faith in Common Sense

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

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