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A Road Safety Initiative That Might Actually Work?

A Road Safety Initiative That Might Actually Work?

In Backchat on Saturday, Huia, one of our long time commenters, made some comments about her lovely day spent wandering about the sunny climes of the Coromandel. Part of that was the following observations and thoughts about motorcyclists. Stopped off in Coromandel on the way back and it was humming,

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Orwellian Defamation Ruling Another Free Pass to Social Media Giants

Orwellian Defamation Ruling Another Free Pass to Social Media Giants

This blog is justly renowned for its well-run comments section. A clear set of rules and a team of hard-nosed moderators has made our comments an uncommonly civil space in an ever-more vicious social media sphere. Which is probably just as well. If an Australian judge’s ruling is allowed

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Kiwi As

Kiwi As

Today is the 103rd anniversary of the formation of the New Zealand Labour Party.  Huddled around a table in a smokey room in Wellington, a group of old white men said, “Let’s do this!” After some 10 years of indecision and internal strife in the Labour movement, the New

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University Leftists Move to Entrench Racism

University Leftists Move to Entrench Racism

When the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, the legacy of billionaire philanthropist Paul Ramsay, attempted to establish a university course in the study of Western civilisation, academics predictably erupted in a sector-wide fit of foaming outrage. Trotting out all their well-worn, right-on epithets, the gibbering loons of academia screeched themselves

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A Preschooler Version of Animal Farm without the Lesson

A Preschooler Version of Animal Farm without the Lesson

What young children are reading will infuriate you. Liberal diversity advocates  have chucked away all common sense in a children’s storybook aimed at pre-schoolers, entitled “We are all equal.” It is an irritating political tale borrowed from Orwell’s Animal Farm, where “All animals are equal” is a farmyard

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Getting a Handle on the Single-Use Issue

Getting a Handle on the Single-Use Issue

Information Satire Once upon a time the single use prime minister of a small pacific nation at the bottom of the world had a neuron-free generational moment. Needing big-ups on the world stage and wanting to impress other newly minted leaders like Justin Time and Heman U L Macron she

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Top Ten Posts of the Week

This Sunday morning post is to provide you with the links to the top TEN most-read posts of the past week so that you can easily catch up on the most interesting and popular posts written by our writers over the past 7 days ( Sunday to Monday). https://www.thebfd.

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