Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book by publishing an extract every day. Flattening the country It was only supposed to be the curve that got flattened, not the whole country. This is the real story of Labour’s lockdown: how poor preparation then panic
Colonial statues, place names, Black Lives Matter Cherie Howie (Herald): Race relations commissioner Meng Foon calls for dialogue on colonisation-linked statues, place names Jason Walls (Herald): NZ First Leader Winston Peters: Getting rid of historical statues ‘idiocy’ 1News: Winston Peters outraged over ‘idiocy’ of ‘wokeism’ amid statue removal Mark
So here we are. Alert level one. New Zealand has officially eliminated the deadly COVID-19 virus still ravaging much of the world. The media is gushing with stories of domestic and international praise of our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. A quick glance at Facebook this morning revealed at least
While Grant Robertson has no financial or economic background, I thought he was doing a reasonable job as minister of finance. There may, however, be an element of comparison with some of the true dullards in the current cabinet that helped forge that opinion. He is certainly no Bill English,
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com So here we all are living our ‘new normal’ – Alert Level 1 in the battle against COVID-19. That’s where we’re expected to stay until a vaccine is available. It’s only at that stage that our borders could fully re-open and
The prime minister has expressed her anger at the fact that The Warehouse Group is about to lay off 1,080 workers. She is particularly angry because the company accepted the government wage subsidy in March, taking $68 million in government subsidies at that time. This week alone, we have
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Thanks a billion, “Black Lives Matter” morons. That’s the estimated cost of your weekend of copy-cat protests by Australian leftist rent-a-crowds jumping on the latest leftist fad imported from America. Black Lives Matter protests are expected to delay the easing of COVID-19 restrictions by at
It seems to have dawned on even the dim wits of the elite that they overplayed their hand with last weekend’s copy-cat demonstrations. Australians are venting their pent-up fury after being subjected to months of unnecessary, devastating restrictions, and then seeing thousands of bandwagon-jumping rent-a-
Pauline Hanson is keeping up her inconvenient habit of saying the sort of things that ordinary Australians think without the approval of their masters in the political-media elite. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she finds it “frustrating (and) hypocritical of the government” that businesses were shut down due
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I read Cameron Slater’s excellent article about the possibility of a National-Green coalition after the election with considerable interest. His angle on the matter was that National voters, upset at the prospect of a post-election deal between National and NZ First should think again, as an even
They’re not even bothering to hide it any more. “Stay home, save lives” was a con. A power grab by grubby politicians and authoritarian bureaucrats. In case anyone was still gullible enough to doubt it, their blatant political cronyism has been laid bare. Victoria Police closed a popular Mornington
Peter Jackson Editor Northland Age A correspondent to the ‘Northern Advocate’ claimed last week that the enduring legacy of COVID-19 in New Zealand will be “the period of gratuitous authoritarianism it brought from the political left.” And he might well be right. This newspaper has no great criticism to
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