Starting late Monday night and then continuing on all Tuesday morning I was sent a number of e-mails by members of a Twitter lynch mob. They disagreed with an opinion expressed on Twitter by one of our Insight: Politics columnists and expected me as The BFD editor to cancel them.
Today’s face of the day is a one-eyed Tui chick that my daughter and I rescued during our walk on Monday morning. He walked up to us musically peeping and clearly in need of help. It was a very hot day and it was obvious that he had met
The only NZ Muslim community that I am aware of to come out publicly to condemn the Nice Terror attack and to call for peace and unity is the only Muslim community in NZ excluded from FIANZ, the Muslim association group that has sole access to the lucrative Halal certification
When I read the headline on The Spinoff “All these new queer MPs are fantastic news. But where are their disabled peers?” I felt like it was the punchline to a joke. I have often commented that ‘positive discrimination’ activists will not be happy until every possible type of so-called
This month’s winner of the BFD Free Speech award is an unlikely winner as it is the country of France. I still find it hard to believe that France, given its shameful history of appeasement, actually had the fortitude to stand up for free speech but nevertheless France deserves
Today’s face of the day is winning praise this week for her particular brand of journalism. Those who don’t like her describe her as a journalist who likes to create the news rather than report on it. One recent example that stands out is how she went up
The old saying is that you often don’t miss something until it is gone and that may well prove to be true when we get to experience Labour at full throttle without Winston Peters and NZ First acting as a hand brake. The Council of Trade Unions’ press release
Like many of you, I went to bed Saturday night feeling rather flat. I had secretly held hope that the result would be close and that the Green party would fail to make it past the 5% threshold. I never in my wildest nightmares saw Chloe Swarbrick winning an electorate
I have just finished editing Cameron’s article on how he voted and why he voted the way he did and it inspired me to write my own article explaining why I voted completely differently to him. By now you will have already read Cameron’s article so I will
Are you a reader who enjoys the Map of the Day? Are you familiar with WordPress? Would you like to volunteer to take over the task of loading maps of the day for The BFD? It is not something that you have to do every day as you can load
I completed the quiz and answered all the extra questions. Don’t be afraid if the answers supplied don’t match your view to click on the OTHER STANCES option to find answers that do. Here are my results: Considering that I am the editor of a conservative new media
Commitment and loyalty do not appear to be traits that today’s backstabber of the day Denise Lee has judging by her political track record and her disloyal actions this week towards both National leader Judith Collins and the National party. Denise Lee stood for C&R and then
National leader Judith Collins has got in on the early voting action casting her ballot in Auckland’s Tamaki. Collins, who stands in the Papakura electorate, lives in Tamaki, a seat comfortable held by National MP Simon O’Connor. She arrived about 11 am to place her vote at St
Stuff has responded to a recent Letter to the Editor that we published on The BFD about Stuff’s updated code of practice and ethics. But how hypocritical of them to state on one hand that they are not biased, are accurate and are balanced when on the other hand
Did Julie Anne Genter just state that Maori are the main New Zealanders who illegally grow and sell cannabis? Why yes she did and even worse she thinks that is a good reason why we should make it legal because most criminals who commit this particular crime are Maori! If
Never has the saying “truth is stranger than fiction” rung more true. BFD’s Believe it or Not. The following lump sums of cash were paid out by Ardern’s government from the Arts Continuity Grant, a COVID-19 response fund which has already paid out $16 million in grants to
