Many of you will have been following Dr John Maunder’s guest posts on The BFD and some of you may already have purchased a copy of his book Fifteen Shades of Climate. On the 27th of March, we are giving away a signed copy valued at $US 69.95
Wibble Dear Sir/Madam, I am wondering if you can comment on your reasons for engaging in the below correspondence, which is very clearly a partisan political promotion on behalf of the Labour Party and in particular it’s leader Jacinda Ardern. As you will note in the correspondence, which
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We are running another fantastic giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are copies of Alexander Logan’s latest novel The Reluctant Assassin. On the 13th of April, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD subscribers. We will use an online random number generator to select the winners
The government launched their ill-conceived school lunches programme and it already appears to have unintended consequences. We received this email on our tipline yesterday: Hey there get a load of this, my primary age daughter tells me the wastage of the taxpayer-funded free lunch at her school is
The saying is “Loose lips sink ships”, which is quite ironic given that the PM’s fiancee Clarke Gayford earns his livelihood by spending a lot of his time on boats. His blurting this out reminds me of the time that Bronagh Key tweeted about cabinet matters……oh that’s
Live America’s Cup chat, enjoy Day 2’s racing. TODAY’S SCHEDULE America’s Cup Match – Emirates Team New Zealand v Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli 4.15pm – Race 3 5.15pm – Race 4
The BFD is seeking citizen journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. Regular contributor Lionred reported on a disaster in Lostwithiel, Cornwall at the end of last year, providing both commentary and photos of what was happening. This year he has been reporting on the coup
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For the second time in as many weeks, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has had to march backwards faster than a French Army: COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has quickly walked back his words after saying Australia is “exporting its garbage” to New Zealand. Hipkins made the remarks
The Director-General of Health must have had a telling off from on high. Why else would he change his story, and make matters much worse for himself? Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield admits he should have refused being treated to a VIP cricket experience with the Blackcaps,
John Rofe Now that we know about the timing of vaccination for various at-risk cohorts it is time for the Government to provide statistics about the adverse reactions to what the public is to be given. There are obviously plenty of stats available. There are numerous articles regarding overseas
