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
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
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
Our dearly beloved Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, will be taking a few days off after having a wisdom tooth removed. It caused me to reflect on my young neighbour who recently had four out but, with a two year old and no nanny, kept calm and carried on under some
Politicians of all shades appear to be having a brain fade when it comes to recognising the critical part agriculture plays in the economy and therefore the overall wealth of the country. Last Thursday hundreds of farmers held a protest at Parliament organised by the farming lobby group 50 Shades
An article on Politik on Monday under the heading “Bridges uses the Zero Carbon Bill to redefine National” made for very interesting reading. Perusing the information in the article was like putting the pieces of a jigsaw together. According to Richard Harman, the decision by National to support the Bill,
