Danny Bright It gives me no pleasure at all to say “told you so” with regard to my prediction last Wednesday. I said it would take a miracle, and unfortunately the miracle wasn’t forthcoming, so Aucklanders are stuck with another three years of numpty Goofy Goff. Listening to him
James Davidson To the regular person the internet is used for social media, YouTube, surfing the internet, work and definitely a lot of procrastination. For paedophiles, however, it is the perfect breeding ground to find and to begin to exploit their victims. We currently live in an age where kindness
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com There’s been discussion over the past few days about taxing wealthy pensioners more to claw back their Super. More and more 65+ year-olds are continuing to work. According to Age Concern in 2013, 22% of New Zealanders over the age of 65 years
A Tad Right Is the LGBTQ+ culture sexualising children? Does the gender pay gap actually exist? And how important is sex education? Listen to this podcast learn about these three things and more with your hosts James Davidson, and Francis Forde.
Croaking Cassandra Statistics New Zealand Thursday morning released its monthly residential rentals series. I don’t usually pay any attention to these data but since I’d been thinking about the very low level of real interest rates, I decided to take a quick look for once. The series goes
Owen Jennings Dr Ben Carson, Republican presidential candidate, medical doctor and now Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has always impressed as a mild mannered, unexcitable but thoughtful kind of guy. He obviously has strong views, quite conservative, but he is by no means a red neck or
Viv Forbes They planned the Land of Make Believe. They wanted water without building dams, cheap reliable electricity without using coal or gas or nuclear power, transport without using petrol or diesel, food without farmers or fishermen, employment without factories, metals and motor fuels without refineries and bridges and buildings
Patriot Realm Trump has been all over China since at least 2018 and gave a warning to them to pull their head in or risk consequences. Well, they didn’t pull their head in and they are about to face the consequences of their arrogance. He offered every opportunity to
Doug “Uncola” Lynn TheTollOnline “We read to know we’re not alone.” Although that particular truism is often mistakenly attributed to the author C.S. Lewis, it was actually William Nicholson who wrote those words in his 1989 play “Shadowlands”, a story about C.S. Lewis. Indeed. The power of
Danny Bright Unless there’s some form of miracle between now and when votes close on Saturday, Auckland seems destined for another three years of Phil Goff as mayor. This is not because the people of Auckland have an overwhelming love for Mr Goff, his policies or the way he’
Beth Houlbrooke ACT Party Deputy Leader / Vice President Fundamentally, I am someone who doesn’t think the answer to all of society’s ills is that “the government should DO something”. It makes me really cross when I come across debate on social media where other contributors assume that because
Patriot Realm The Victorian Police Commissioner Graham Ashton defended a Melbourne police station’s decision to fly the Chinese flag on the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic, saying it was merely a way of engaging the local Chinese Australian Community. On Tuesday, Box Hill police station flew the
Alwyn Poole Baylight.co.nz On Saturday in Russell, we had the privilege of opening a remarkable Learning Centre to provide opportunities for school groups from across New Zealand and internationally, tertiary groups, corporate leadership retreats, church groups, families and even as a function centre for a wedding. Bay Light:
Alex Davis is a business executive and director of several companies in New Zealand and overseas. He explains what he believes is one of the root causes of the issues currently confronting the West. theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com As any number of graduation speeches formulaically tell you, the purpose of a
George has been unwittingly writing Guest posts for us for a while now (I steal them from General debate) and so far he has eluded attempts to talk him into becoming an official BFD writer. I have therefore made a “Captains Call”, and from now on his much read and
By David Theobald Thanks to a six-hour stopover in the Cathay Lounge in Hong Kong at our request David has penned a few more words, as a follow up to his David Farraresque travel blog from the UK. Arrived in Hong Kong and was pleasantly surprised to see the
