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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Daily News Roundup – 28 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 28 September 2020

Newshub-Reid Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National is in a classic opposition party death spiral Audrey Young (Herald): Latest poll is a shocker for National (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Labour – walking away with it Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: For the first time, exclusive polling

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Lockdown, Wake-up!

Lockdown, Wake-up!

Professor Mark Woolhouse, who is Chair of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the UK’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, well understands ‘interconnectivity’ and globalised population modelling. Writing in The Telegraph this week, he says that we must all now follow the

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How Scary Is the Wuhan Plague, Really?

How Scary Is the Wuhan Plague, Really?

From the moment the ruling Chinese Communist Party ordered a handful of inconveniently big-mouthed doctors in Wuhan silenced and then forced them to pen some good old communist “self-criticisms”, the Wuhan Plague has been marked by lies, bullshit and rampaging ignorance parading as “settled science”. China and the

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Bad Science Is a Greater Threat Than COVID

Bad Science Is a Greater Threat Than COVID

Ideologues love to defend their passing obsessions, from transgenderism to catastrophic climate extinction, by shrieking, “It’s SCIENCE!” Do you doubt that a male can be a female? “Listen to the science!” If you also dare harbour the niggling suspicion that the Wuhan virus might not be quite the Black

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How Much Do Victorians Really Love Their Dear Leader?

How Much Do Victorians Really Love Their Dear Leader?

There’s a reason I call my former home state “Cucktoria”. Victoria long ago overtook South Australia as the nation’s most left-wing state. Worse, no matter how many scandals the Andrews government racked up – Redshirts, the CFA – Victorians remained apparently blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. Even as

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More Lockdown Insanity

More Lockdown Insanity

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Described as Germany’s most celebrated virologist, Professor Hendrik Streeck this week issued a warning to nations going back into lockdowns. “Hold your nerve and don’t succumb to the pervasive mood of mass hysteria,” he said. “It’s time to stop all this alarmism.

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Daily News Roundup – 25 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 25 September 2020

Election Tim Watkin (RNZ): Sending out the political assassins as National shoots itself in the foot Peter Dunne: Greens’ fate uncertain, but the rest of the election jigsaw is beginning to look remarkably settled Andy Fyers (BusinessDesk): Will the polls move this close to election day? (paywalled) Ali Shakir (Herald)

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Should Scott Atlas Sue His Detractors?

Should Scott Atlas Sue His Detractors?

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Former Stanford professor and now White House advisor Scott Atlas has positioned himself against lockdowns and for widespread reopening of the economy, a position that is backed by high-prestige scientists around the world, including other colleagues at Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, alongside many medical

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Jacinda Has a Forgetful Moment… Bless

Jacinda Has a Forgetful Moment… Bless

Jacinda Ardern has been caught out contradicting herself. During Tuesday’s interview with Mike Hosking talking about the handling of COVID she said, “Mike, if in your view there’s a perfect model here, you are welcome to that view. Mike replied, “No you are being too linear. It’s

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Daily News Roundup – 24 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 24 September 2020

Election Audrey Young (Herald): Act’s job is to destroy NZ First vote says National’s Judith Collins Ben Leahy (Herald): Wealth tax ‘a bottom line’ for a Greens-Labour Government: Genter Claire Trevett (Herald): Why Jacinda Ardern has more to fear from a poll she won than a debate

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Daily News Roundup – 23 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 23 September 2020

TVNZ leaders debate Tim Watkin (Pundit): A Rabbit-Hole Election Debate: So Do You Want More Avocado Orchards? Steve Braunias (Guardian): First TV debate between Ardern and Collins avoids being a horror show Luke Malpass (Stuff): Leaders’ election debate verdict: Jacinda Ardern lost, but Judith Collins didn’t win it

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