Blackrock is a huge American financial company. It’s also very woke and is putting pressure on other US companies to be woke as well. Breitbart reports. The retirement savings and investment accounts of millions of Americans are being used to pressure corporate Americans into adopting the left’s climate
If you’ve been following the US election you will know that Fox News has committed business suicide. Lou Aguilar from The Spectator explains. Trump broke every other news entity even before he took office in 2017. CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the rest have
The government has announced that it is legalising pill testing services and it is about time. It should have been done last year. In fact, it should have been done the year before that and the year before that. […] Andrew Little announced on Tuesday that time-limited legislation will give legal
It ain’t easy getting both the Left and the Right to despise you, but Oranga Tamariki boss Grainne Moss has managed to do it. Newshub understands Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis is furious with Oranga Tamariki after it failed to inform him of another damaging story about uplifting Maori
In case you don’t know, Pete Evans is an Australian celebrity chef and judge. He also happens to be one of the latest to be cancelled because of a remark or tweet. The Warehouse will stop selling the work of controversial Australian chef Pete Evans but his books and
Having an absolute mandate comes with a price. This article from RNZ illustrates why. The Labour Party has just swept to the most convincing election victory New Zealand has seen in a generation. But with many of the party’s own preferences now lying dead in the water after failed
Our media may be ignoring it, but there’s other big news coming from the US that is not the US election. The War on Drugs is coming to an end. In the long term, this news may be of more significance than whether Trump or Biden wins. In Oregon
This month the Human Rights Commission released their October report. In it, they called for amongst other things warm and dry homes and fair pay wrapping them up in the concept of “rights”. In response, ACT leader David Seymour and Simon Bridges both took issue with what was said. ACT
Women’s sports has been under attack by men who identify themselves as female and their woke supporters. Just over a week ago something happened which could be a sign that the tide is turning. World Rugby has ruled that such men are banned from playing women’s rugby at
If the referendum fails If the referendum fails it means not only that legalisation of cannabis is off-the-table but probably also decriminalisation. It would be easy to blame the misinformation campaigns and scare tactics of groups like Family First and SayNopeToDope. But to me that’s too simplistic. People voting
The world went into lockdown following China’s lead. Now it appears that China has taken us all for a ride. Paul Joseph Watson writing on behalf of Summit News explains. Researcher and attorney Michael P. Senger suggests that the Chinese government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign to exaggerate the
A few weeks ago I wrote about Jacinda Ardern and her refusal to tell us where she stands on the Cannabis Referendum. Since then the issue has gained a lot more traction and it was even mentioned in the last Leader’s Debate. Now Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has entered
Two headlines on Newshub on the same day, a few days after the first leaders’ debate (a debate the media is strangely claiming Ardern lost but Collins didn’t “win”). The first headline says “NZ Election 2020: Judith Collins’ claim 100 percent renewable electricity would increase power prices fact-checked as
The National Party has done it. Judith Collins has done it. The Greens have made it pretty clear how they’re going to vote. Of course, I’m talking about the Cannabis referendum. Unfortunately though Jacinda Ardern still hasn’t let us know which way she’s voting: Jacinda Ardern
Back in early July, Steve Elers of Massey University wrote a tongue in cheek article ridiculing transgenderism and their use of pronouns. Since then it appears to have triggered a number of people, including lefty journalist David Farrier. Here are some excerpts from Steve’s article […] This time, however, I
Recently The BFD published an article in three parts by James Farmer QC titled “Cannabis Legal Reform – Arguments for and Against”. The following is my reply. I have consistently believed that cannabis is a harmful substance and that people who use it for “recreational purposes” would be more sensible to
