Gail Many decades ago a young woman sat with her classmates in a convent chapel atop a windy hill in Wellington. A Franciscan priest stood before them. He had been chosen by the nuns to conduct the annual retreat for senior pupils, a time of silence, reflection and contemplation. Winter
Nikki Kaye is one cat shy of being a crazy cat lady, but is making a damn good impression of Mrs Slocombe by complaining about her pussy being covered in plaster: National MP Nikki Kaye has been left horrified after her cat Charlie was involved in what is believed to
A Facebook glitch which allowed visitors to view the edit history of user’s posts has been rapidly fixed, but not before tech-hounds managed to exploit and explore several high-profile user pages, including Miss Thunberg. So, while almost everybody already strongly suspected she was just a mouthpiece; at
Matthew Hooton writes in Metro Magazine about why he thinks Labour will win this year’s election. This despite the distinct lack of delivery and policy blunders like KiwiBuild. It is as if, like the Trump administration, the governing party’s base has separated out its love for the leader
Late yesterday we were informed by Newshub that Simon Bridges fears the ‘politicisation’ of the police after the raid of a BFD writer’s home. Nice to know that the leader of the National party finally found the time to tear himself away from his holiday in order to comment
Where is the National party on the over the top Police gun raids? Their Police spokesperson Brett Hudson is celebrating a birthday party with a Labour MP: Their former Police spokesperson Chris Bishop is busily telling us who he thinks should be in a world cricket XI; and expressing disappointment
Under this headline “Laziness, United States and our own prime minister to blame for regression of English language” Karl du Fresne wrote an opinion piece on Stuffed last week: “The year just passed was notable for the supplanting of the letter T by D in spoken English, so that we
Over the past few days, surges in traffic from New Zealand and overseas caused The BFD to go offline a number of times. Our server simply couldn’t handle the heavy traffic. We have bit the bullet and signed up for more Ram which will increase our expenses significantly each
Noeline Taurua was made a Dame of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to netball. During her time playing for the Silver Ferns in the 1990s Taurua won bronze at the Birmingham World Championships in 1995 and silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Her
When Harry married Meghan, I was happy for him. He had dated several lovely young women, but all of them had said that they could not cope with the media scrutiny of their relationships. Meghan Markle was another story. An actress in a well-known TV legal drama, she could
The day that the public’s trust in Police died can be measured. It was 9 January 2020, the day approximately 12 armed and uniformed goons from the Police metaphorically kicked in the doors of a young Christian family to search for a .22lr lever action rabbit rifle. It is
On Thursday evening, I was just finishing up dinner with my two oldest kids. My wife was feeling unwell and feeding our four-week-old baby in bed. I had just gotten the icecream out for the kids when the doorbell rang. I opened the door to see a number
