Andrew Little almost destroyed the Labour Party once and with a little luck he may well contribute to a drop in popularity again. His wonky crusade against freedom of speech will become part of the right wing’s rallying call as we charge over the barricades. Political commentator Chris Trotter
The Coalition’s Minister for Hate Speech, as I have come to think of Andrew Little, had the following exchange yesterday in parliament. Shockingly, Andrew Little appears to be more in favour of free speech than National MP Nick Smith Question No. 6—Justice 6. Hon Dr NICK SMITH (National—
Pete George (yes I know none of you has ever heard of him) likes to pretend that he has a higher standard of ethics than other bloggers. But here is just a sample of the kinds of comments that he allows on his tumbleweed blog site, where ex commenters from
On the weekend Simon Bridges made a hilarious malaphor, an error in which two similar figures of speech are mashed together, on a Radio Station. Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched + Don’t take people for granted = We don’t count our chickens for granted Here are
I have divided the Prime Minister’s speech to Maori at Waitangi this year into statements and promises. She only promised two things. Promises: 1.[…] Doing things differently includes how we acknowledge our history. […] To see a commitment that we will finally have the teaching of New Zealand histories in
Information Humorous content Journalist Sean Plunket appears puzzled at how The BFD obtained a newsworthy photo, so I thought that I would help him out by putting together a remedial primer called Journalism 101. (I’m very helpful like that.) How a newsworthy photo could find its way to The
This is the same Paula Bennett who stayed in the office while she fed her staff and MPs to Melanie Reid in order to do a political hit job on Jami-Lee Ross. This is the same Paula Bennett who is a member of a political party that regularly sent information
Someone once said that the biggest gang in New Zealand is the New Zealand Police. While I have respect for the police and they are obviously not criminals, I do get the point that they are a powerful group. Since Stuart Nash under Jacinda Ardern, started listening exclusively to the
Today’s post is a request for more Weekend Quiz content. I would like people to contact me who would like to create five quizzes for us on a topic of their choice. The quizzes can be created and saved for use when needed. No commitment will be expected. All
The United Nations has not been fit for purpose for a long, long time as it has been taken over by countries who do not have free democracies and who have terrible human rights records. Now the United Nations has gone so far as to use tactics straight out of
Our Prime Minister claims to care about stopping hate speech but like most on the left what she is really concerned about is taking away our freedom of speech by attempting to control the internet. Andrew Little appears to be holding back on his Hate Speech legislation in an election
A new NZ media website has not been around for very long but already it is striking fear into the heart of a Radio Station. How do I know this? Well, “a Radio Station” reported on a website in relation to a news story but referred to it cravenly as
Dear Readers The BFD has a few small boxes of brand new books to give away as prizes once a week on View From Your Window. The prize day will be random apart from tomorrow which will definitely be a prize day. The winner will get to choose their prize
Newshub clearly wants customers to come again or should that be cum again? An article that appears in every way to be an advertorial for sex toys but that is not labelled as such, this week promoted a sex toy giveaway. The article goes as far as to link to
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The left would have us believe that all Arabs are thrilled at the idea of living in a Palestinian state but 250,000 Arab Israelis, at least, do not want to become part of a Palestinian state for the following reasons. 1. They have seen the daily human rights violations
