When Maori King Tuheitia, cousin of Nanaia Mahuta – our Minister of Local Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Associate Minister of Maori Affairs – brazenly suggested in 2012 that “We own the water” he was roundly shouted down. Even well-to-the-left Stuff denounced him: Scientists estimate New Zealand broke away from the
Well: she’s done it, as promised. Our nominal prime minister; The Honourable Jacinda Kate Laurel Ardern, promised to ask the ‘drafters’ of the ‘Three Waters’ legislation to ‘clarify’ the alleged mission-creep, scope-enlargement, call it what you will, in the controversial legislation, the stuff she knew nothing at all about
idbkiwi thebfd.co.nz Information Opinion Well; there you have it folks. The biggest Ram-Raid (it’s so audacious I had to capitalise it) in New Zealand history was carried out on Friday last. Definitely not your common-or-garden-variety ram-raid conducted by underlings working for their criminal gang bosses while Coster
Information Opinion Well, that’s disappointing. Don’t you think? The huge increase, that is, in ADD sufferers in New Zealand: those ‘Angry’, ‘Disappointed’ or ‘Disgusted’ in our prime minister: Ardern’s highest rating in the poll was for “disappointment”, at 35 per cent, a figure which included 26 per
The appointment of a radical to a position of such sensitivity as Director of He Whenua Taurikura – New Zealand’s National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism – bothers me, as it should you. Given her lack of background in intelligence or extremism, except her own, our
Misunderstandings are common enough in peacetime so it’s fully understandable that during times of war their frequency will be exacerbated and the contagion thereof more widespread. The ‘Battle of Manners Street’, which occurred sometime around 79 years ago this month, was whispered of in my cohort’s youthful 1960s,
The past week must have been declared ‘Misogyny Week’ by the United Nations, unbeknownst to us, we the people who don’t matter because the prime minister’s attack dogs rounded on this theme and sent their underlings to do their work under the guise of ‘journalism’ and ‘commentary’. It’
Call it the Covid crazies I suppose, I don’t know for sure. Perhaps the vaccine nano-particles are channelling through the microwave across the room to some circling spacecraft returning me subliminal messages, but I find myself dog-tired at 2pm and awake at 2am, a relatively slow time for news
The Ministry of Health is looking for a mind, having demonstrably lost theirs during the course of the Kung Flu-demic. They’re not looking for just any mind, no sir, they want a controlling one, which – to be fair – seems par for the course of this outbreak, where excessive and
There’s a fool on the Bowen Street hill, claiming Sunday last, that we’re in a position of advantage here in being behind the overseas pox outbreaks and therefore able to learn from them. The statement would have merit if she actually learned, but she doesn’t. Remember it
Under the austere leadership of the Church of Scotland, and a purely literal reading of the Bible, Christmas was ‘banned’ and remained so for hundreds of years in the presbyteries of the Northern British Isles, only officially rejoining the collective sanctioned celebrations in the mid-Twentieth Century. Blaming the once-supreme Catholic
Jacinda Ardern chose to make this pandemic political: of that there is absolutely no doubt. At the very onset, in the first week of March 2020, a group of our senior epidemiologists whose names are all very familiar to us now: Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Prof Michael
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy was handed the speech which had been produced by his advisors, the one he was supposed to read to the colossal crowd gathered on the free side of the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963, he instead ripped it up and wrote his own. The fellow
Information Satire I’m not sure which was the tipping point. It might have been this: “Unfortunately there is a very small but very vocal minority of people in New Zealand who are prepared to communicate information that is patently ridiculous,” says Professor Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at Otago University.
By way of public service, I offer you ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’: a (very) short essay proposing a more pragmatic response to eliminating SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 variant (designated ‘Delta’ – WHO) (Super-tricky virus) from New Zealand/Aotearoa.v2. It is clear that our glorious government has inadvertently
On Friday the Thirteenth the Dominion Propaganda Post treated us all to a schlock horror front-page headline truly worthy of the turgid, tasteless, tabloid it has become. It suits their new role at the feet of Mistress Ardern, like half-starved puppies, ready to do her bidding in the hope of
