Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. None of your business Perhaps the most telling remark on either side of the argument about the lockdown’s length came from Labour’s minister for employment, Willie Jackson.
“If you’re going to make a mistake, make it a good one!” Ardern’s government didn’t make just one big mistake managing COVID-19, they made several. Despite her oft-repeated claim of going hard and going early, Ardern went too hard and not early enough ensuring long
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com Over two weeks ago in my article, “Both of NZ’s Post COVID Futures Are Bad: Part Three. Our Political and Academic Leaders Need to Admit They Made a Terrible Mistake” published on June 3rd, I predicted that New Zealand could not keep COVID-19
Who knew that the deadliest plague of modern times, the Black Death of the 21st century, could be stopped by riots? After all, it was a scant fortnight ago that daring to venture outside our homes, even to take our children to otherwise empty parks was tantamount to kicking your
Now that the unraveling of the shambles that was the handling of COVID-19 is becoming apparent, there is also becoming apparent a number of personages who have suffered embarrassment as as a result of the fallout. There is no better place to start than at the top with the
The cruise industry wants a ban on cruise ships lifted to allow Kiwis-only voyages around the New Zealand ports. The Government suspended all cruise ship visits until the end of June and Cruise New Zealand Association chief executive Kevin O’Sullivan said they were anxious to prevent any extension.
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Winners picked and losers packed The economic response to the COVID-19 threat was a mixed bag from the start. In mid-March, the Minister of Finance announced support
OPINION: Thursday morning began with a typical Wellington breakfast: a whole lot of egg, served on a whole lot of faces. From the all-but-canonised Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and director-general of health to the beleaguered health minister, no one’s reputation was spared from repeated stories of
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Mike: So it turns out Michael Woodhouse had it right, the women whose trip to Wellington has seen the government’s entire quarantine strategy fall to pieces in front of our eyes did stop, and they did meet people, and on the back of those revelations the flood is now
Border failure Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Heads have to roll over border catastrophe, but whose head should it be? Michael Morrah (Newshub): Blame for COVID-19 quarantine, PPE fails lies squarely with Ministry of Health Jane Patterson (RNZ): Covid-19 border botch-up: ‘Next few days will be crucial’ Jane Clifton
When the plane wheels ground against the runway at Auckland international airport, the two sisters would have been stressed and exhausted. They’d crossed the globe from London, via Doha and Brisbane, to be with their dying mother. But first, they had to sit out 14 days of managed isolation
So after all that effort on the part of the ‘Team of 5 Million’, we now have 3 new COVID-19 cases, with two of the cases having done a road trip from Auckland to Wellington, hugged people, attended a funeral and God knows what else. That has already resulted
Old Mate David Shoebridge is having a hard time keeping out of the news, these days. Whether it’s employing Marxist vandals or getting in Rich People Fights with his neighbours, Shoebridge continues the Greens’ tradition of mouthing off hard-left platitudes while living the most bourgeois lifestyle imaginable. He’
