2020 has arrived and it promises to be one of intense interest, at least for us political tragics. There is our own election, the American election and the ongoing saga of Brexit. No doubt tragics of a different sort will keep banging on about climate change and how death for
We are now two- thirds of the way through the term of this Government led by the Labour Party on a slogan of “Let’s Do This.” So what have they done? In truth, not a lot and much of what they have done has turned out to be counterproductive.
Now that Boris Johnson has won a resounding victory in this month’s election, allowing him to pass his Bill which ensures the UK leaves the EU at the end of January, it is interesting to read comments from the past pertinent to Britain’s proposed membership of the Common
Audrey Young, writing in a weekend newspaper prior to Christmas, wasn’t going to let reality get in the way when it came to handing out festive bouquets to the leaders of our political parties. According to Audrey, echoing the words of old Mr Grace in Are You Being Served,
The Inside Story in a newspaper last weekend featured an interview with Hamish Rutherford and Gabriel Selischi, OMV’s head of operations for Australia and New Zealand. The interview was one of the better pieces of journalism rarely seen in this newspaper. It illustrated the reality of what is required
One of the ongoing talking points on The BFD is the need for National to have friends they can partner with as without them their chances of regaining the Treasury benches are slim. In this regard, it is interesting to reflect on the UK election leading up to and on
The one topic that is screwing society up more than any other is climate change or global warming or whatever the latest catchphrase is. Let me make it clear at the start we are all aware of climate change. There have been ice ages and warming periods and floods and
Watching the UK election and how it unfolded induced something of a longing to a return to the FPP system of voting. Whether it has appeal or not, what the UK election showed is that it is easier to get the desired result if enough people want it. It avoids
In part one of this series, I dealt with the woke society. In this article, I will talk about the politically correct nonsense that has in fact, been around for some decades. Wokeness and political correctness have a certain similarity. They both invoke a climate where one is expected to
Planet Earth, i.e, the world, is falling off its axis. Funnily enough, it’s the people most affected by it that are the ones causing the problems. It’s not the “OK Boomers” Ms Swarbrick was talking about recently. Definitely not. It’s the Millennials and Gen Z that
Frederick Forsyth, a writer and author whose name you may be familiar with, writes a weekly opinion piece in the Express newspaper. The Express is available here in a weekly edition and there’s more reading in that than there is in a week’s worth of a local rag.
I buy a newspaper on the weekend as it is about the only one the stable produces that has something of journalistic substance to it. The weekday one often resembles a reincarnation of the NZ Truth which was aiming at a particular market. The paper I’m referring to is,
I have just read a very good article on Breitbart News entitled ‘Greta the teenage puppet goes full Marxist.’ According to Greta the climate crisis is not just about the environment. Surprise, surprise, it’s a crisis of human rights, justice and political will. Colonial, racist and patriarchal systems have
It appears if you were born with a nasty side to your personality you are destined for the left side of politics. Politicians on the left have a propensity to be anti-democratic, unwilling to listen to the other side of a discussion and have a mantra that it’s okay
On reading that the Government was going to give “people in care” for less than three years the vote, my 39-year-old daughter said, quite correctly, that this Government is a joke. It is, in fact, more than that. It is a collection of disparate people who were enabled to be
It is of some considerable relief that Grace Millane’s killer was found guilty. In my opinion, with the evidence that was produced, it would have been difficult for the jury to find otherwise. Every time a case like this comes up and a guilty verdict is given there is
