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WHY Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

Answer: To subscribe to The BFD. The BFD’s two MOST popular subscription levels are Bronze and Silver. Our Bronze level subscription is the lifeblood of The BFD. We really could not exist if it weren’t for Bronze level subscribers who pay us $10 a month. That is ONLY

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The National Party Needs to Go into Labour

The National Party Needs to Go into Labour

The Labour Day holiday of 2020 prompts thoughts about what lies in store for our country’s immediate future following the landslide electoral success of a Labour government. What are the implications for Kiwis as they contemplate the likely consequences of three more years of social, economic and political tinkering

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The Stroke, Two Years On

The Stroke, Two Years On

Two years ago today I awoke at 0600 unable to use my right arm, half of my face slumped and with a very wonky walk. After my brush with Bell’s Palsy two years prior (the symptoms are similar), I knew the tests that checked to see if you’ve

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Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by John Black that was first published 19th October 2020. 10 Reasons We Lost The Nats won’t need chairs at

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Jacinda Can Forget about COVID Fearmongering Now

Jacinda Can Forget about COVID Fearmongering Now

Audrey Young tells me in the left-wing Weekend Herald headline, “Ardern looks ahead after digesting win and a whisky”. Well, she daren’t look back otherwise she’ll see what a dismal failure her first term was. All the key indicators in all the key areas were heading in

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Dear Jacinda

Dear Jacinda

Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet The New Zealand Labour Party led by the ever-popular Jacinda Ardern surged in this month’s election, trouncing National, the main opposition party. Labour gained 49.1 per cent of the vote and 64 of parliament’

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Daily News Roundup – 27 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 27 October 2020

Labour Party and new Labour Government Andrea Vance (Stuff): ‘Labour Connect’ the data analysis tool that boosted Jacinda Ardern’s campaign Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Time for Govt to take some risks (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on her big win and big plans (paywalled) Audrey

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A Treat for Non-subscribers

A Treat for Non-subscribers

Today readers without a Bronze level BFD subscription get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. If you like what you see you can grab a Bronze level subscription today. Note: This free taste does not include access to the puzzles which is another feature of a

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

First Home Buyer Burned by Sunset Clause Finally Secures Dream House in Lower Hutt There is a house worth of stuff packed into the laundry room of Bailey Ross’ parents’ house. The 25-year-old Wellingtonian bought a television, dining table and chairs, sofas, appliances and wine glasses – “the essentials”

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Show Me the Logic!

Show Me the Logic!

Press Release: New Conservative News came out this week that a shearer was given a 16-month prison sentence for killing a lamb because it frustrated him while shearing it. Christopher Tredinnick received the sentence in Cromwell this week, according to the New Zealand Herald. Meanwhile, only a few months

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