The media company Stuff has accused police deputy commissioner Wally Haumaha of trying to coax a reporter into writing a sympathetic story about him. Mr Haumaha strongly disputes the interpretation from Stuff that he was trying to coax the reporter, and says the context does not support that conclusion. […] Stuff
Green candidates have said that they want Wellington to become a “plastic-free” city, and like most Green party ideas, it is big on virtue and small on joined together thinking. Retailers are the ones who are going to gain from a so-called plastic-free Wellington. Let’s just look at the
As I write this post I am acutely aware of my bias. My view of New Zealand’s justice system is totally skewed by the fact that people with deep pockets were able to drag my better half through the court system for more than 7 long years until he
I am glad to see that Stuff did not get away with telling porkies about so-called right-wing extremism. The Media Council has given Stuff a slap over the wrist for their smear of a man and a group that he belongs to. Personally, I think “unfair” is a very euphemistic
It is not just conservatives, classic liberals and so called far-right people who are getting sick of identity politics. People with left-wing and socialist views are getting sick of it too as the attacks are no longer confined to those on the right side of the political continuum. Our most
The Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index is an analysis based on one of the most reliable data sets available on the impacts of extreme weather events and associated socio-economic data. The Germanwatch Climate Risk Index 2019 is the 14th edition of the annual analysis. Its aim is to contextualize ongoing
[…] In Southern Taranaki, Potanga Neilson of Ngai te Rangi says he is reminded daily of the assault on his iwi. “As far as I’m concerned, we’re surrounded by terrorists, their names are memorialised on all of our towns and streets.” Close to where Mr Neilson lives, there is
We have previously written about how The Spinoff has imitated the satirical photoshops that the blog is so well known for. https://www.thebfd.co.nz/2019/04/the-spinoff-imitates-whaleoil/ The latest aspect of our winning formula that they have copied is our highly popular Crybaby of the Week. Below is
There is a very dangerous situation involving Russian and US subs in the arctic that bears watching. Apparently, a Russian sub was sunk and there are 14 dead. Pence was called to the White House and Melania was called back and put in protective custody. Steve Ben deNoon is a
The Labour party have a not so proud history of creating policies (with the best of intentions), that have unintended negative consequences. They also have a not so proud history of ploughing ahead with these kinds of policies despite wiser heads than theirs warning them what the consequences will be.
An article on Stuff asks the question, “Do you need to be popular to win an election?” What then follows is political commentary trying to make a case for why National should hold on to an unpopular leader. I cannot help but surmise that they want National to keep him
President Trump and London Mayor Sadiq Khan are very different. One is able to change history by working with a dictator from North Korea in order to facilitate an end to the war between North and South Korea and the other thinks that because he disagrees with a democratically elected
Megan Woods has been tasked with burying Kiwibuild completely. Her job is to comprehensively destroy the programme so that its name is never mentioned ever again. This article by Shane Te Pou tells us where the policy on housing is likely to head. Megan Woods has a chance to move
I have noticed for a while that Stuff has been calling New Zealand, Aotearoa instead of New Zealand in many of its news articles and now the NZ Herald and other New Zealand media have started doing it too. It is a subtle way to change the public’s language
