The folks at Stuff are all tingley-legged over a ‘Fox News’ poll showing ‘record’ support for Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office. Since modern reporters can’t afford time away from their precious Twitbook screens for actual analysis it’s left to mere commoners to do the
This photo has been doing the rounds but deserves a better look. The woman in Labour red is Diane Abbott, a very high up figure in the UK Labour Party. If Labour had won the election, she would now be the UK Home Secretary, in charge of national security! I
Don’t feel bad if you weren’t. I certainly hope the families and friends of the deceased received some comfort from Ardern’s gesture of sympathy, and it’s not that I don’t possess any sympathy myself, because I do. It’s just that my sympathy was overtaken
Newstalk ZB host Andrew Dickens’ comment ‘how Maori are you?’ deemed offensive, but acceptable Cool, so I can now identify as Maori, offer my opinions based on that, and nobody, including any ‘actual’ Maori person can question it – because according to them it’s not acceptable to question if someone
Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all of the Government’s policies and actions in relation to the economy? TAMATI COFFEY to the
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign With only five days left, the firearms buyback is turning into a total omnishambles. Firearms buy-back collects only 28% of banned firearms Yesterday we exposed that despite all of the media attention and advertising campaign by the Police, the firearms buyback has
Questions to Ministers Dr DEBORAH RUSSELL to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? DARROCH BALL to the Minister of Defence: What actions did
It has come to the attention of TheBFD that a few weeks ago there was a meeting between NZTA and farmers, farm contractors, trucking firms and other interested parties such as fire service volunteers. This took place near Christchurch and by all accounts, things got quite testy. The purpose of
Assuming there are no major changes in the New Zealand political landscape before November next year, we can look forward to seeing Bridges and Ardern in the usual televised leaders’ debates. There’s little doubt that Ardern will still be Labour leader. There’s no way the intellectually challenged serial
The previous government already had a solid infrastructure programme in place when the current coalition came into power. One of the first things the COL did was to cancel most of those infrastructure projects, particularly the roading projects. This government’s ideology, led by the Greens, was that roads would
Based on the BS we’ve seen in the House of Commons for the past three years and the never-ending demands for another referendum because …”we were misled about the referendum” (which was just adding more BS on top of BS), the only appropriate outcome for the UK now
Since the White Island tragedy, you might have noticed that it’s now been renamed by media and others as Whakaari / White Island. This most likely also hasn’t escaped the attention of Karl du Fresne, who writes about the stealth attempts by the media to change New Zealand to
