Human beings are social creatures. We go out, we mingle with others, we visit friends, we socialise. We may even reach out to other people to dull the pain of loneliness. We also use substances that change our consciousness. We take caffeine to wake us up and to give us
To the approval of woke parents everywhere Kmart has gone, well, woke. Newshub explains: An Australian mother of a son with Down Syndrome admitted she teared up after spotting dolls with the same condition as her son at her local Kmart. […]Brodee, who runs a blog documenting life with her
A drum roll, please. The answer to the question “Who is the biggest source of greenhouse gases?” is, and colour me surprised, … China! Wow, who would have thought, right? The obviously far-right and fake news site “Climate Change Dispatch” explains. Take, for instance, a new report that shows greenhouse gas
On Thursday night I had the misfortune to watch a TV One News attack piece on the planned protest by farmers. It was very strongly implied that farmers are a threat to the environment and therefore must change their ways. The inference was that it is the farmers who are
Saul Alinsky was an American commie who thought nothing of using and manipulating others for his own ends. To paraphrase his own words, “the ends always justified the means.” Anyway, he wrote a little book called “Rules for Radicals.” Two of the rules are of particular relevance today. The first
A quiet revolution is happening in New Zealand right under our own noses and, for the most part, we’re just letting it happen. Karl du Fresne explains. In his best-selling 1976 book The Passionless People, the late author and journalist Gordon McLauchlan characterised his fellow New Zealanders as ‘smiling
As we all know, Twitter mobs have been going after people for “wrong-think”. It seems that they’re no longer content with that and are now going after fiction authors for “wrong-write”. Reclaim The Net explains. Social media outrage at fictional books is causing contrite writers to revise their lines
Last week The BFD published an article by Dr Muriel Newman titled “Challenging the Agenda”. This bit particularly stuck out for me, and it is a quote from media commentator Karl du Fresne: “The guidelines covering applications for funding are explicitly politicised. Media operators are advised they must ‘actively promote
Say what you like about the Poms, but they know BS when they see it. The Evil Empire is pushin‘ but the Brits ain’t buyin’. Steerpike from The Spectator UK explains. A new poll by Redfield and Wilton — with a sample size of 1,500 – found that more than
Brendan O’Neill, editor of “Spiked”, asks the question “What’s the real reason so many people hate Israel?“ Did you know that for the past three weeks Turkey has been engaged in a military assault on Iraqi Kurdistan? It’s been brutal. The Turks, who have one of the
I despise the late Paul Holmes with a passion. And no, it’s not because he shamelessly ripped off Aussie’s Derryn Hinch. To explain why, I need to go back to around 2009. In 2009 Paul’s daughter (you know the one) was a full-on meth addict. Together with
If brains were electricity, DOC wouldn’t have enough to drive an EV around a half metre piece of conservation land. And speaking of electric vehicles, here is the Department of Conservation’s latest brain fart, as reported by Stuff. The Department of Conservation (DOC) has been charging one of
It appears that a certain very famous tranny has got all the other trannies upset. And all because he made the commonsense remark that trans “women” should not be allowed to compete against real sportswomen. Newshub reports on the furore. Reality TV star and transgender woman Caitlyn Jenner says she
A mother writing for the Epoch Times asks the simple question: why are so many of the wealthy and elite leftist? “Why are all successful people leftists?” said my daughter, challenging me with a smile. “Not all of them. Those leftists are just very loud,” I replied. I knew she
Recently Newshub ran a piece asking its readers if they cared about correct grammar. An Auckland woman has sent a complaint to Countdown over its poor use of grammar on some of its signs. Karen Wilkinson has written a letter saying their in-store checkout signage refers to “12 items or
We’re told that tracer apps are for our own protection and to stop the spread of Covid, but if what’s happening overseas is any indication, then that is a big lie. It seems you must comply or lose your livelihood. ReclaimTheNet reports: Many have feared that invasive location
