David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern owes New Zealanders an apology for the slow vaccine rollout that has New Zealand at the bottom of the OECD. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday stood in front of media and apologised for the slow rollout saying “I’m sorry that we haven’
National has analysed the DHB vaccination numbers against their populations and it turns out the ‘targets’ DHBs are using to track their progress are essentially meaningless, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Of the nine DHBs below the national average for the first vaccine dose administered, seven
July 20th, 2021. Dominic Cummings has just been interviewed on BBC by Laura Kuenssberg, the political editor of BBC News. He is doing a first-rate hit job on Boris Johnson and disclosed the massive influence on him by Carrie Johnson, his wife. He also disclosed that the team behind
When NZ’s version of Dancing With the Stars invited The BFD’s own Cam Slater to participate, he responded that he’d rather “poke pins in my eyes”. As Cam explained to BFD readers, “This network were happy to demonise me for years […] now they expect that I might
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Australia today has the pathetic honour of being the only country in the world which currently prohibits its citizens from foreign travel (excluding visiting New Zealand during the spasmodic bubble periods) without specific permission. They’re doing this under the provisions of the 2015 Biosecurity
When journalist David Farrier left New Zealand his return journey was only a vague concern. Now he spends hours a day refreshing a yellow and white webpage attempting to get back into the country. And so my week has been spent on a fun website called allocation.miq.govt.nz.
20th July 2021 Following on from previous pieces on Covid in Myanmar, the following piece from Frontier gives a human perspective on how it is impacting people. With hospitals in Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and coronavirus cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect
Over 18 months since the Chinese virus first ’emerged’ in Wuhan, one thing is abundantly clear: they will never let us be free, if they can help it. “They” are the unholy alliance of governments, public health bureaucrats and the mainstream media, all marching in lockstep with the Chinese Communist
Adam Creighton of The Australian is one of the few mainstream journalists willing to speak the truth about COVID lockdowns. Also, unlike most of the mainstream media, he is no starry-eyed Ardern fan, either. Put both of those together, and you get his blunt indictment of the COVID policies
New Zealand remaining last in the OECD for the speed of the Covid-19 vaccine roll out can be partly explained by the fact New Zealand only ordered Pfizer vaccines on January 29 this year, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions show
Colin Alexander Nottingham Trent University Dr. Colin Alexander is currently Lecturer in Political Communications within the Communication and Society subject team at the School of Arts and Humanities. The lifting of most COVID legal restrictions on July 19 has been dubbed “freedom day” by some politicians and journalists. Though not
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Professor Michael Baker’s recent Stuff comments appeared desperate and certainly revealing. First, the desperate. He labelled the UK’s possible move from Covid-19 restrictions to freedom
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18th July 2021 Warning WARNING – SOME READERS MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING PICTURES DISTRESSING. Following on from yesterday’s piece on Covid in Myanmar, it is becoming clear that the junta are weaponizing Covid to further impose control and punishment on the population. This wasn’t helped by the arrest of
