Let us not pretend that Charlotte Bellis is not totally responsible for the promised opening up of the borders that had been slammed shut indefinitely in December. For reasons I have constantly failed to understand, our ‘open and transparent government’ has ridden roughshod over New Zealand’s citizens for the
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. Time to Be the National Party One of a few treasured photographs from my undistinguished university career
Hot on the heels of proposing new taxes, the tyrant‘s regime is now talking about rent controls to help people struggling with the cost of accommodation. They’ve proven that they have no real solutions for housing after abandoning their flagship Kiwibuild policy as an ignominious failure. So rent
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org In September last year, I watched a filmed press release from a group of pathologists in Germany, who presented their findings to the public in an open peer-reviewed process with shocking images of what was in the residue of hundreds of Covid-19 vaccine vials from Pfizer,
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Today’s announcement of a slow, staged and uncertain border reopening is all about Jacinda, instead of New Zealanders. This will be Jacinda’s third announcement about the same thing. As usual it forecasts another announcement for next month. New Zealand is not short of
Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’s jobs by complaining to their employers. Last year a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader Debbie
Two years ago a website was set up to measure media bias in New Zealand. Both Kiwiblog and The BFD were mentioned and rated, as were left-wing blogs and all mainstream media. Back then Newshub was rated as the most biased (towards the left) of all the mainstream media. The
You will see from the information below that the Government is paying the salaries of MSM Editors so that the Media organisations themselves do not have to fund the positions themselves from their own revenue. This means that the minute the Government stops the funding the Editors will lose their
The Spinoff has the same size audience as The BFD but the similarities end there. The BFD is funded 95% by our 1500+ members and 5% by our advertising revenue. The BFD serves a broad church of political views that includes libertarian, centre-right, and conservative readers of whom the majority
Of course, Charlotte Bellis has now got an MIQ place. As she should. However, the reason for her successful bid was wrong. That she has been made the deserving supplicant and poster momma of the monstrous iniquity that is MIQ is wrong. She is no different from all the thousands
Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. The top ten countries that have readers that regularly visit our site are: This article is a shout out to our readers in other countries
New Zealand has a bad case of déjà vu. The Covid experts are still muttering over their crystal balls about stamping out Covid claiming unless more stringent measures are adopted we could be facing “50,000 daily Omicron infections by Waitangi weekend, according to modelling by a highly-respected, overseas health
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. On Monday, Roy Morgan, Australia’
You have to hand it to the tyrant, she really knows how to turn people against her with her evil behaviour. This is a lovely example of the Ardern’s regime kindness towards the elderly. Pensioners stuck in Australia face the prospect of a $16,000 bill from the Ministry
