The government has no business wading into the Ihumatao deal. The only thing that the government had a duty to do was to ensure that the law was upheld and that the police were used to move the protestors off the land. They failed to do their duty and to
Simon Bridges was on MagicTalk with Peter Williams yesterday and had a little bit to say about Maureen Pugh and the West Coast. Apparently the comments he made to Jami-lee Ross weren’t an accurate reflection of his feelings about her. Say what? And, that he has always had a
You may have noticed that I occasionally republish an article on The BFD from a NZ Blog called Redline. It is a Marxist blog and it can be very interesting to see how the other side of the political divide thinks. The latest article to catch my eye caught my
Meet Marcail Parkinson, today’s crybaby of the week and a normal teen, especially when it comes to wailing on about plastic. Walking down a supermarket aisle lined with plastic wrappers is enough to set off “massive anxiety” for Marcail Parkinson. The 17-year-old Auckland high school student feels dread, and
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The problem with oppositions is they tend to chase every passing car in the hope it gains some traction. Labour, the Greens and NZ First attacked National in 2014 for what they called ‘cash for access’ events where punters were charged hefty fees for dinners or lunches with cabinet ministers.
There is no quiz in today’s weekend quiz slot because we have been unable so far to find a volunteer to take it over. It is time to hand the torch over to another volunteer. Could that volunteer be you? You can fill this quiz time slot with a
Youtube, with little fanfare, have changed their terms and conditions so that they now have the power to DELETE a content creator’s entire account if they upload or livestream a video that doesn’t pull in enough advertising revenue. Reading that, you might think that highly popular conservative and
The ACT party is fast becoming the Free Speech party of New Zealand politics. David Seymour has withdrawn a Free Speech Bill in order to strength it further by making tertiary institutions’ funding dependant on them taking “ all reasonable steps to protect academic freedom and free speech”. No doubt this
Talk is cheap but ACT leader David Seymour has put his words into action. An organised group of Trans activists has bullied and twice now, deplatformed a feminist women’s rights group, preventing them from holding a feminist event with an overseas speaker. Initially the feminist event was going to
We have written previously on The BFD about Massey University’s recently announced free speech (snort!) policy and rules. Sadly, just like George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth which was actually the Ministry of Propaganda, their free speech is anything but free. Stephen Franks writes that “Massey Council has doubled
The poll results below are from two live polls so the results that I have commented on in this post may have changed slightly by the time this post publishes. *Update: I have corrected mistakes and updated the post with the latest figures for the ACT party poll. NZ First
We on the middle and the right side of politics have been so busy being upset at the National Party for focussing on compromise instead of standing strong against the Zero Carbon Bill, that we have totally missed the delicious silver lining in it all. All is not well in
We have been told in no uncertain terms by the NZ Advertising Standards Authority that ice cream does NOT make us happy and that anyone who dares to advertise that it does, better wipe the smirk off their face quick smart, because “the implicit claim that there is a link
Massey University has killed free speech, and now they are burying the body under a mountain of paperwork that I call the Massey Manifesto. Massey University really, really REALLY don’t want speech to be free on their campus. Any event organiser who wants to have a speech event on
Oh dear. Government employees in New Zealand have been caught trying to visit naughty websites and no I am not talking about Porn sites although they have been caught trying to do that too. Apparently what they have been doing is so much worse than porn. They have been trying
