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Is Ardern Preparing Her Escape Route from Hate Speech Laws?
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The Prime Minister has seriously miscalculated the popularity of her
Want to Write for Us but Scared of Cancel Culture?
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
It’s War and We Are the Enemy
A deeply cynical, secretive, dishonest and treacherous bunch of fellow travellers are this mob in power, epitomised by Jacinda Ardern. She leads the most deceitful New Zealand government in the last fifty years. It’s a travelling caravan of the craven with nobody prepared to talk outside the tent and
myBFD Apple Mobile App Now Live
After several months’ development the native myBFD app is now approved and live on the Apple App Store. The app for Android devices is already available on Google Play. The development of this app for members has been a long time coming and now turns myBFD into a fully-fledged social
Climate Travesty
I have taken to reading The Spectator Australia and The Telegraph in the UK recently, as they produce decent journalism that is well researched, well written and thought-provoking without being inherently biased. The Telegraph attacks members on both sides of the political divide roughly equally, while The Spectator attacks wokeism,
Labour Has Failed on Housing
Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party was elected in 2017, and again in 2020, ostensibly because they promised to fix the housing market. They claimed that Kiwibuild was a policy which would build 100,000 homes, or 10,000 each year for ten years. They also claimed that their policies would
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I was looking at the BFD subscriptions today when I noticed that one customer name for a subscription was My Cat James. We here at The BFD are all for diversity of thought of course but I also think that it is very important that our customers are also as
The Free Speech Union’s Letter to Westpac
Free Speech Union fsu.nz Update: A supporter has flagged this piece of PR put out by Westpac: Westpac offers bank accounts to help newly-released prisoners re-integrate into society. So Westpac are actively helping (and rightly so) convicted criminals reintegrate into society yet are doing the opposite for Lee Williams
With Your Help We Can Win a Lopsided Battle
Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister
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Ardern Is in Control as NZ Spins Out of Control
Ardern’s political philosophy at its most basic is all about control. This has become more evident this term as her electoral mandate allows her carte blanche to do whatever she wants. We can call her a socialist, a Marxist, even a communist and can point to some truth in
