An Open Letter: Dear Mr Deeply-Disappointed, I was moved, almost to tears, not by the terrible photo your propaganda arm chose to illustrate your comments, but by your heartfelt words of concern for the sub-group of Aotearo-ites consistently suffering worse health outcomes, and shorter life-expectancy, than other sub-groups, and the
A Straightforward Question. In a letter to the editor in Wednesday’s DomPost, very experienced Wellington property developer and philanthropist Mark Dunajtschik, the man who donated the new $60M Children’s Hospital (now nearing completion) to the city wrote: “The New Zealand Transport Agency projecting the cycleway between Ngaurunga and
Last Thursday, April 1st, Dr Bryce Edwards, political analyst in residence at Victoria University of Wellington, ruffled the very considerable plumage of species Iratum dominae – better known to us as Megan Woods, Minister of Housing, earning him a personal rebuke: Arousing Woods’s ire was Dr Edwards’s column for
The BFD warned, two months ago, of the voodoo economics behind the Climate Commission’s rosy analysis of economic damage to our community in pursuit of their utopian low-carbon dreams. It’s not that we’re economic geniuses here at The BFD, it’s just that the damned numbers don’
I’m disappointed to announce that Professor Shaun ‘80,000-dead’ Hendy’s self-penned, self-congratulatory screed published Wednesday last at Newsroom, left me feeling bitter. That’s not a nice emotion to have. Nevertheless the good professor’s column, in spite of the hubris on display, is enlightening as to the
Boss-Lady’s gaffe: “We drum in that messaging around the dangers of Covid pretty diligently for a full two-week period of sustained propaganda” on Monday was just too big, and too public to ignore. So her sycophants did as sycophants do, and went in to bat for her: “The tin-foil
The dog ate Rod Carr’s homework, alas; poor thing. Refusing to release the Climate Commission’s miraculous modelling that posits costs from the Commission’s recommendations to government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions as de minimis, Carr has come up with several excuses, and now affected industries are seriously
The most insidious path ever set down in this country during this writer’s lifetime is about to be walked, the steps taking us (further) along the track to totalitarianism and racial separatism. It’s chilling, it’s evil manifest, so why aren’t we talking about it? And, more
I came across this very useful phrase yesterday: “a media pathogen” – in an article describing the virus of state-sponsored untruths deliberately spread by willing, or naive, accomplices in the news industry. The article discussed the findings of a “nine-month Associated Press investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the
Like the High Priests of old who dispensed their eschatological, imminent destruction, end-of-times world view, the new high priests of Climate dismiss criticism of their faith with all the conceit, arrogance and glibness of their predecessors. We were treated to such a display last week by Dr Rod Carr in
It seems the direction the country is going will be determined by the Climate Commission, not least in reference to the name of our island group where in their ridiculous report, released this week, we are referred to as Aotearoa 435 times in its 188 pages–yes, you read that
Just as Covid has mutated and become more worrisome, so too have alleged cultural connections mutated to become much less specific, but far more powerful and concerning. It is not enough to protect individual sites important to mana whenua, and therefore to our entire cultural heritage, during any land development,
Because they haven’t got a clue (the gormless New Zealand press) today’s puff-piece on President Biden’s Oval Office make-over needs to be expanded somewhat: Still obsessed with departed President Trump we hear the deep and meaningful significance of the items that are gone, good riddance, along with
Dear Leader, Happy New Year. I know how much you expect and enjoy the hard questions and, given your well documented penchant for doom-porn, I have a dilemma for you to start the new year with. Your publicity arm – Stuff – have reported that in Norway “a total of 29 people
The luvvies are adither and aghast; someone is creating deep-fake clips satirising she who must not be satirised. Apparently, this is “terrible” and “disturbing”. The “Fisherman’s Friend”, Clarke Gayford, the fiancé of our Prime Minister asks, “Who is doing this, and why?” Created by ‘Genuine Fake New Zealand deepfakes’
Hiding in a Rotorua bookstore last Wednesday – coward that I am – while the troops were performing the curious female ‘shopping’ ritual, and leafing through the tomes on display I happened upon this passage: “Ross Hayton is a jovial, bearded physician who has done so many colonoscopies in his life that
