By David Theobald Right! Starting the long journey home and my trip to the UK is done and dusted. Currently in the Cathay Lounge at Heathrow from where I will post this. The main point of the trip was to visit friends, many of whom I have known for fifty
By William Felt I usually finish in the office at 6.30; in time to catch the sports news at 6.40 on TV. This is especially important during the All Black season and more so during a “World Cup”. Seeing what our team is up to in the hours
By Owen Jennings Someone called James Renwick (described as a “climate scientist”), managed to get himself on the front page of Granny Herald recently. I’m not sure what a “climate scientist” is. We never used to have such a term – we had geologists, physicists, biologists, chemists, etc. I think
Warning Dark Satire Dear Sir On 1st October the NZ Herald ran this headline Two unborn babies die after mothers catch measles. Identifying foetuses as babies is a vile, sexist attack on women. It is not for the old white male editor of a newspaper to decide if a foetus
Craig Lord www.craiglord.nz I ‘m annoyed. Genuinely annoyed. Annoyed enough to do something crazy and run in a campaign to be the next Mayor of Auckland. I know, it’s crazy, but I have been so dejected and basically pissed off about the way we were being treated
By George I can imagine I’m not alone with my growing intolerance of others deciding what’s best for me. As a child I needed direction, nurturing and guidance and through a process of trial and error l developed a lifestyle that best suited my needs and ambitions. As
Patriot Realm By Feather Douglas I never believed that this would happen. NSW Parliament voted unanimously to abort female babies and at term. My heart is breaking. While Mattel battles to make Barbie doll a transgender binary idol and George Soros promotes child abuse with Greta Thunberg; while a 5-
Beth Houlbrooke ACT Party Deputy Leader / Vice President My piece on defence of vaping received mixed responses last week. I had no idea at that time that I would be invited onto the weekly ACT podcast Politics in Full Sentences to discuss the very topic with the co-founder of
Craig M Todays face of the day is an Afghan War Veteran who was mocked for taking his service dog to gun buy back event This is what this hero has to deal with, due to his injuries. Thank you Private Dion Taka for your service to our country and
A reader of The BFD has done some digging into who is behind the so-called student-led Climate marches, and this article is about what they discovered. The truth about who runs School Strike 4 Climate. Contrary to popular belief, and the young people who falsely claim to be
By George Isn’t it ironic that the flagship policy this year presented by this COLs, led by Ardern, was to focus on mental health and wellbeing? Hundreds of millions of dollars have been targeted to alleviate what is perceived to be the declining state of emotional stability within society,
William Felt At the beginning of the year, Jacinda returned from 7 weeks holiday. 7 weeks you may say sounds like an awful lot! But anyway, she attended her first press conference on that day and it did not go well. Tova Obrien: ‘Her first press conference (after 7wk break)
Beth Houlbrooke Act Party Deputy Leader / Vice President When thinking about this week’s Ad Lib, all the immediate topics that came to mind caused me to roll my eyes involuntarily, so I’ll skip over them quickly: Lowering the voting age Using the argument that 16 is the age
By Mark If you google “slippery slope,” the first result is a Wikipedia article describing a slippery slope argument as a fallacy. If you then google “fallacy,” another Wikipedia article appears first, describing it as “the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning.” I guess those who own Google and
By George It is common knowledge that historically Maori did not have a written language. What is a fact is that their written language was developed in or around 1815. Thomas Kendall, an early missionary, travelled from New Zealand with Ngapuhi chief Hongi Hika to England where they met linguist
