Is it any wonder that people don’t trust the authorities, much less the legacy media, any more? The legacy media’s reputation slides further down the s-bend every day. Almost nobody trusts the government. Even the thin blue line is slipping in the public eye. Maybe they should
As recently reported on The BFD New Zealand’s very own Duchess of Globalist Elitism, Helen Clark, has published a new report just chock-full of the sort of finger-wagging wokescolding that UN cronies specialise in. Coming from the UN and Clark, the report is short on objective facts
“O’Sullivan’s First Law” states that “any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time”. The truth of this adage is repeatedly demonstrated in everything from state bureaucracies to NGOs to service clubs. One consequence of O’Sullivan’s First Law is that the
There are, of course, lots of differences between conservatives and progressives (I hesitate to say “liberals”, because most are, in fact, thoroughgoing authoritarians), otherwise, they wouldn’t be in opposition to one another. But one of the big differences, some argue, is that progressives are more focussed on emotions than
When conservatives in the US first began to talk about the “Deep State”, they were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and cranks. Except that they were right. The past five years and more have seen a slew of revelations which prove that an unelected and deeply embedded bureaucracy is working steadily
As I wrote some time ago, there is a deep moral cognitive dissonance at the heart of the “right-to-die” movement. In our society, suicide is regarded with such horror that its very name cannot be mentioned by the media. Suicide is seen as an overwhelming moral harm. On
It was recently revealed that a clandestine group of Australian Labor politicians had taken to meeting and exchanging emails and texts. The group, which includes nine Labor frontbenchers, is determined to unshackle the party from the extreme left. Pandering to the left, they argue, is making the party unelectable. The
When Celeste Barber was making mocking pastiches of celebrity Instagram photos, it was funny and fresh. The problem, though, is that it made Barber a minor celebrity in her own right, and, like all celebrities, she has proceeded to use her fleeting moment in the C-grade sun as a
“Progressives” just love claiming “expert opinion” for their political conceits – except when actual experts disagree with them. Despite the opposition of doctors’ groups like the AMA and the World Medical Association, the “progressive” Andrews government steamrolled ahead with its legalised suicide euthanasia legislation. Any worries that crossing the Rubicon of
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied geology, physics, chemistry, maths, meteorology, cycles, industry economics and commodity markets. Two green-dream fantasies are heading for a massive and costly collision. Firstly they dream of generating all grid power from wind/solar propped up by battery storage (such as lots of giant
This week Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms will be discussing the latest in Australian and New Zealand news. We’ll cover development in Holden leaving the region, the Serious Fraud Office investigations into National and NZ First, an Australian firefighter who lost his job, and much more. We’ll
Gary David is more-or-less forgotten, these days, but there was a time when he dominated news and politics as Public Enemy Number One. David was institutionalised, in orphanages, boys’ homes and ultimately prison, for 33 of his 38 years. From a life of petty crime, David graduated to
In a salient display of a free press and journalistic independence, the Australian government-owned national broadcaster has taken the Australian government’s Federal Police to court to block them reading documents seized when officers executed a search warrant. Who grants search warrants? Is it the Prime Minister, any elected
If you were to believe the green movement’s propaganda, they are the only squeaky-clean troupe of ideologically pure, selfless servants of the people in the entire Australian polity. Graft, corruption, secrecy, dirty politics…there’s none of that kind of goblin mischief going on, down in Fairy Dell.
As already reported on The BFD, a slim majority of activist judges on Australia’s High Court have handed down a shocking decision that threatens to impose a new regime of magic-inspired “progressive” racism in Australian law. By virtue of just four judges, Australia is now in the situation
A “shameful”, “paternalistic”, “absurd” and “radical” decision by Australia’s High Court has exposed, for all to see, the danger of the current push for “constitutional recognition” of Aborigines, and of unelected judges taking it upon themselves to usurp the power of parliament and the people who elect it. Especially
