David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has been quietly moving some prisoners up the list to receive the COVID-19 vaccination without any consultation. Prisoners were all part Group 3 along with most of the general population, but a new document shows that some have been moved into group two. This
There’s an old saying in journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. That is, the media are more likely to report the extraordinary. “Man bites dog” is a far more interesting story than vice-versa. The only problem with that is that it leads to a very skewed worldview for the
Dear Editor What are we not being told about the sudden, unexplained death of health executive Pauline Hanna on 5 April 2021? The news media is reporting today (15 May) that police are talking to a masseuse visited by the husband of the deceased. They have also spoken to the
The government, yet again, have been caught out playing fast and loose with the law during their haphazard pandemic response. First, it was the lockdowns that were illegal, and now it is the vaccine rollout: The Health Minister is making an urgent law change after a High Court judgment ruled
The Auditor-General’s audit of the government’s vaccine roll-out presents a very worrying picture of a lack of progress and significant concerns about whether it will achieve its goals at all, says National’s Covid-19 Response Spokesperson Chris Bishop. The Auditor-General states that he is “not yet confident that
The Government should be doing more to make sure people who use our MIQ facilities are paying what they owe in a timely manner, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. National has figures which show the Government was owed almost $7 million in overdue invoices from MIQ guests, with
I have been driving around Wellington in the last couple of days. Traffic is abysmal, as usual. Stop start, stop start… but there are billboards all over the place advertising the Ru Paul show. Tell me, New Zealanders… do you really think, in the middle of a pandemic, it was
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak George Orwell, “1984” I’ve long been a proponent of the efficacy and safety of vaccines. I have my “shots” regularly, including the annual flu vax. I’ve long disdained, and occasionally, futilely,
As we have seen from the outset of the Wuhan plague, politicians and bureaucrats around the world have uniformly implemented the worst possible policies and completely refused to learn from their failures. In lockstep, their camp-followers on the left have dutifully cheered on official stupidity and viciously attacked dissenters. As
We at The BFD have been reporting it for over a year, now – and finally, the mainstream media are beginning, ever so slowly, to catch on. What I’m talking about is the now-undeniable evidence that lockdowns do not work. New Zealand’s ‘COVID Queen’ might like to boast that
The Government that said it would be the most open and transparent ever has once again done the exact opposite, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. After the debacle of last month’s Health Select Committee hearing which saw it filled with endless explanations about the end-to-end user
