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
It is hard to believe that one year has passed since we launched The BFD and what a wild ride it has been. I want to take this time to sincerely thank the amazing BFD team who held my hand throughout and who kept me going when the going got
Let me guess. Does it look anything like this? Or maybe this? Oh I know!
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
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’
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
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
I cannot imagine Rod Emmerson ever drawing Jacinda Ardern as the devil. Isn’t it interesting that a strong, experienced and highly capable leader like Judith Collins is drawn in the form of the devil so that the election battle is framed as good versus evil or more accurately kindness
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
