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Stepping Down for Health Reasons

Stepping Down for Health Reasons

For a moment, let us put aside our dislike of Ashley Bloomfield. Being a Wellingtonian, I know a number of people who have worked with him and all say that he is a good guy. For me, he became too politicised, and that was his downfall. But look at the

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Top Ten Most Viewed from the past Week

Top Ten Most Viewed from the past Week

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Nudge Unit

The Media and the Nudge Unit

You may not have heard of the ‘Nudge Unit’, but I can assure you that it exists and I believe our own government has one. The original ‘Nudge Unit’ was set up in the UK and called the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit“. Described

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The Nationwide Online School That Is Thriving

Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly

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Check Out Our New BFD Merch

Check Out Our New BFD Merch

Want to show everyone you love The BFD as your ‘one source of truth’? Well, now you can. This year we launched The BFD Merch store. We have t-shirts, sportswear, polo shirts, hats, jackets, shorts, sweatshirts, mugs and Sonovamin and Boomslang wall art, shopping bags and accessories. We do not

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Concerning her resignation, outgoing Labour MP Louisa Wall says: “I’m not a minister because the Prime Minister told me I would never be in her cabinet. […] “[Y]ou’re going to have ask her about why she thought there was no place for someone like me in the Labour

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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Lushington D Brady. Brace Yourselves for Soaring Health Premiums We’ll All Be Paying for COVID Follies. Actuaries may

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership

Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter. Why the Woke Re-Write History It would be fascinating to know what the Woke think the world

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Wokeness ‘Hasn’t Been Easy for the Greens’

Wokeness ‘Hasn’t Been Easy for the Greens’

Family First familyfirst.org.nz It must be exhausting for the Green party to try and juggle their confused woke ideology. They currently have male and female co-leaders under their constitution. Sort of like marriage. (Sooooooo bigoted!) But now they wanna get rid of the male. (‘Males’ are very yesterday

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Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Warning Long Read. 1634 words. “Cancel culture”, “callout culture” or “woke politics” – these trends are often accused of reducing political debate and diversity of thought in society. And it’s on university campuses where this is said to occur the most. Yet until now, it hasn’

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Banning Fizzy Drinks Will Fix Education, Jacinda and Chris

Banning Fizzy Drinks Will Fix Education, Jacinda and Chris

OR: The Root(beer) Cause of the Housing Crisis, the Crime Stats, Oranga Tamariki, Our Lack of Productivity, Growth of Prison Population, oh, and Our Significant Education Decline … Is a Lack of Oat Milk. Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School

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Check Out Our New BFD Merch

Check Out Our New BFD Merch

Want to show everyone you love The BFD as your ‘one source of truth’? Well, now you can. This year we launched The BFD Merch store. We have t-shirts, sportswear, polo shirts, hats, jackets, shorts, sweatshirts, mugs and Sonovamin and Boomslang wall art, shopping bags and accessories. We do not

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Face of the Day

“For two decades, she has stalked her prey in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, just metres from the city’s hospital and the Canterbury Museum.” Stuff Contracted by Christchurch City Council and armed with a .22 air rifle, Dawn Hendrikse hunts possums in the dark, in the city. Read more here.

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Join the MyBFD Community Today

If you don’t already have a Silver level membership to The BFD you are missing out. You are missing out on MyBFD our very own community platform. You are missing out on Insight Politics articles. You are missing out on SonovaMin and BoomSlang’s fantastic political cartoons: You are

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I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News

CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you, and some links to some of my recent disinformation, but let’s do the news first. The good news is, April 2 was officially “Freedom Day” in New Normal Germany, which means

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