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Phil Goff: Planned Lockdown Protests an Insult to People Making Sacrifices and Following the Rules Phil Goff says he hopes protests won’t involve confrontation and actions that make people unsafe. He says if they do, they should expect Police to respond. Read the article in full here. Comment on

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Volunteer Writers Wanted

The BFD is seeking motivated, concise, reliable, and professionally-minded writers. Ideally, we prefer articles of 400-600 words in length. If you feel that the subject requires a longer post please keep it under 1000 words, (ideally under 800). Local news stories are as welcome as anything to do with sport

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Tova Eats Humble Pie

Many a politician or their ilk has been ‘wasted’ on Newshub Nation by Tova O’Brien so Judith Collins was right to be wary of suffering the same fate when asked to go on Nation. She said ‘Not Tova’, and Tova crowed about this comment on Newshub. Anyway a compromise

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Comparing Apples with Apples: The Spinoff and The BFD

The Spinoff has the same size audience as The BFD but the similarities end there. The BFD is funded 95% by our one thousand plus 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

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A Billion Dollars a Week

A Billion Dollars a Week

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, governments all around the world borrowed – or printed – money to stimulate the economy. It was enormously successful because the plan almost everywhere was to get people out of the dole queues and back into work by building infrastructure. That was how so many

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Do You Trust Us?

Do You Trust Us?

The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’ in

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Prime Minister, a Little Less Conversation Please

Prime Minister, a Little Less Conversation Please

While the rest of the “Team of $55 million” in Big Media were dribbling over a video of Jacinda Ardern walking in Wellington, claiming it went viral, they missed the real viral explosion all over her Facebook page. Quite why she decided to offer up unsolicited medical advice on Facebook

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

I am curious, do totalitarian, fascist statements sound any better coming out of Sir John Key’s mouth than they do coming out of PM Ardern’s mouth? John Key backs move to ‘take away liberties’ to make people get Covid jab Read the article in full here. Comment on

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Trendsetter Siouxsie

Trendsetter Siouxsie

September at a sunny Auckland beach. Two weeks later at a sunny Auckland beach. Please share this article so that others can discover The BFD

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A Significant Distortion of the Truth

A Significant Distortion of the Truth

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. sportingshooters.nz Recent statements attributed to the Commissioner of Police, Andrew Coster, have repeated previous allegations from police that gangs acquire their firearms from licensed firearms owners. That is a significant distortion of the truth and by implication Coster maligns a quarter of

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Newshub Nation Sinks to New Low

Newshub Nation Sinks to New Low

I was surprised to see Judith Collins on Newshub Nation. I understood that she had decided not to appear because the interviews rarely cover issues important to the viewers. I am now aware that subsequent to that decision, Judith’s chief press secretary was contacted by the producer of Newshub

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