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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Matthew Hooton has resigned from his PR role in the National party after only 9 weeks in the job. He was a vocal advocate for Todd Muller to replace Simon Bridges as leader and Todd Muller took him on as his campaign strategist after he rolled Simon Bridges. I think

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I Bet You Didn’t Know This
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I Bet You Didn’t Know This

Did you know that there are two easy ways to locate everything a BFD writer has ever written for The BFD? The first way is as EASY as simply clicking on their name under an article headline. This trick works even if they are not a regular writer for The

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Free Speech vs Local Body Politics

Free Speech vs Local Body Politics

Local body politics are supposed to be democratic, and what can be more democratic than the free and open contest of ideas? Free speech in other words. When we democratically elect our local body representatives we elect them to act as our voice for issues and to run the council’

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Newshub and The Spinoff’s Cheese Meltdown

Newshub and The Spinoff’s Cheese Meltdown

Both The Spinoff and Newshub have lost their collective minds over the price of a block of cheese in the most silly and lightweight mauling of Judith Collins since a labrador puppy slobbered over her slipper. The above headline isn’t even accurate as she made no such claim but

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Why Diversity Doesn’t Matter

Why Diversity Doesn’t Matter

The Spinoff is spinning like a top on “diversity” with their latest spin entitled “Why diversity matters (and no one should need to write this headline in 2020)” Before I even started reading the article, the headline had inspired me to write this post as I am so sick of

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is the people’s choice. The National Party Caucus has ignored National party voters for way too long and last night they finally gave the majority of National supporters the woman they have been calling for since John Key resigned. The road ahead is

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Stupid Political Statement of the Week

Stupid Political Statement of the Week

I don’t often venture over to The Daily Blog (maybe twice a year) and yesterday was the day I donned my raincoat and gumboots (to protect me from all the spittle and muck) and waded in to see what well-know political commentator Martyn Bradbury AKA Wrongly Wrongson had to

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“Dangerous Ideas”

“Dangerous Ideas”

As an ex-high school English teacher I could not resist analysing the Newshub Nation hit job on the New Conservative Party. When I was a teacher I would work with students to analyse advertising as well as films. We would look at subliminal messages and how camera angles could be

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Censorship: Amazon Just Banned the Best-Selling Book, “China Virus”

Censorship: Amazon Just Banned the Best-Selling Book, “China Virus”

One hour ago, Amazon deleted the book, China Virus. They banned it. You can see their terse e-mail below. Amazon has claimed that the book contradicts “official sources” of information about the virus. But Ezra Levant’s book does not give medical advice — it’s purely a discussion of Canada-China

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Political Victim of the Day

Political Victim of the Day

The Labour Party purges have begun and they have opened the gates so wide that there is now the potential to shame them into purging every single candidate on their list. They, not The BFD, set the rules, and the rules are very simple. Any social media comment, no matter

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“Girlfriend” of the Day

“Girlfriend” of the Day

Warning Extreme cringe. Not for the faint hearted. Was I too harsh dear readers? Was this just a bit of light hearted harmless fun? Let me know in the comments. Muller said today he’d seen the video – which ends with Bennett and Sainsbury dancing in colourful kimonos to Gloria

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We Have Three Signed Copies to Give Away

We Have Three Signed Copies to Give Away

Many of you will have been following our daily extract from National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country and some of you may already have purchased a copy. This weekend we are giving away one of three signed copies to a lucky BFD subscriber. On Sunday we will

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NZ Herald Appears to Have Memory-Holed This Article

NZ Herald Appears to Have Memory-Holed This Article

An article written by Peter Jackson that was published by the NZ Herald on the 16th of June has been removed, and it has not been re-published by any other mainstream media outlet. It included comments by Ngapuhi leader David Rankin that turned the whole Black Lives Matters trend on

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