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Yet Again, the Media’s COVID Narrative Doesn’t Add Up

Yet Again, the Media’s COVID Narrative Doesn’t Add Up

Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power&Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has BA degrees in economics and political science, and an MA in political science from the University

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Digital Genius?

John Redwood johnredwoodsdiary.com The digital revolution sweeps on. Much  of it is miracle technology that makes lives easier and better. It is transforming shopping, entertainment, media and much else. Parts of the public sector though are making technology into a  misery machine to spy on us , infuriate us and

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Free Press

Free Press

Free Press ACT Party The Haps ACT has reached another polling high, of 13 per cent according to UMR. David Seymour is preferred Prime Minister for 14 per cent of voters. The Government has questions to answer about Afghanistan. Who decided what when? Were the translators’ applications rejected for good

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Inconvenient Facts the Media Won’t Print

Inconvenient Facts the Media Won’t Print

We’ve all been bombarded with weeks and weeks of “sustained propaganda” about how safe the vaccine is, or how by taking the vaccine it will allow us all to have better possibilities. But what if I told you that the majority of patients in an Israeli hospital, with the

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Lockdowns and COVID Deaths

Lockdowns and COVID Deaths

BFD commentators are a smart bunch. Recently a commentator made the fair point that the UK’s sudden reduction in Covid cases after removing restrictions could be explained by people having fewer tests. As I say, that’s a fair call. But it’s pretty difficult to use the same

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Should We Tell Stories of Vaccine Sceptics Who Have Died of COVID?

Should We Tell Stories of Vaccine Sceptics Who Have Died of COVID?

Nick Chater Warwick Business School, University of Warwick As vaccine uptake starts to wane, stories have began to emerge of people who refused the jab ending up in intensive care, ruing not having had the vaccine, and subsequently dying. These cautionary tales are certainly attention-grabbing, but is it right

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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Trained Media Seals Applaud Treating Citizens like Criminals

Trained Media Seals Applaud Treating Citizens like Criminals

Treating ordinary citizens like criminals? Welcome to Jacinda Ardern’s world. She’s really acting all Stalinist. This is just the start of implementing gulags for the non-compliant, (after the obligatory show trials of course). But why don’t the media get up them when they suggest shit like

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The Message and the Messenger

The Message and the Messenger

Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world.  Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. As we are daily browbeaten by bobbing heads and flapping hands across New Zealand and Australia to mask up, get vaccinated, maintain social

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Fines for Filming Lockdown Cops

Fines for Filming Lockdown Cops

When I was a teenager, we used to joke about “Queensland: the Police State”. This was, after all, the era when, as the Fitzgerald Inquiry showed, Queensland police and politicians were neck-deep in vice and corruption. The Bjelke-Petersen state government banned public assemblies without permits and police mounted

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