Graham Adams Graham Adams has been involved in publishing in New Zealand for the past 40 years as a journalist, columnist, reviewer, magazine editor and subeditor. He has also worked as a book editor and screenwriter. He has a BA in psychology and French, and a MA in classical Greek,
One News recently ran a hit job on Tross Publishing, a publisher that we at The BFD are very familiar with as we have run advertorials for two of its books and have given away copies of them to six of our lucky members. The attack by One News was
Some months ago, in September, I received credible information from a source that The BFD and myself were being actively monitored by Police Intelligence and that at least once we had even been mentioned in a weekly Police Intelligence briefing. Fortunately I was able to OIA the precise documents where
I mistakenly used to think that people generally respond positively when presented with facts that oppose their thinking. I was wrong. People do not change their thinking or behaviour if they derive benefits from misleading and inaccurate information. Mask wearing is an example of not following the science. At the
Colin Ford In Other News www.inothernews.co.nz Information Opinion I came across an article published on Linked-in last week, that to me, typifies the dangerous attitudes of the Wokesters, a group who I would argue, got us into the mess New Zealand is in today. The article,
Ivan Oransky mercatornet.com Ivan Oransky, MD, is a cofounder of Retraction Watch, editor in chief of Spectrum and a distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.He is a member of Knowable’s Magazine Advisory Group. A warning: This article will not
Okay, after that third instalment, I suspect we would all like a good dose of mind-bleach. But, blinding ourselves to the insidiousness of the Long March is not the way to save ourselves from it. Still, after dealing with the creepiness of the commie kiddy-fiddlers, let’s deal
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CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com So, I had a little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin and several of her many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent Factory blog
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” It was actually Ernest Benn who said it, not Groucho Marx — although I’m sure Groucho would have agreed wholeheartedly. Especially if he’d lived to see Australian Prime Minister Scott
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As you may have heard, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down. Dorsey is not, it might be said, a popular figure in centre-right circles, given his platform’s relentless censorship of conservatives generally, and former President Trump in particular. Most notoriously, Dorsey’s company banned any discussion
Last Month we ran another fantastic giveaway for our members and today we are announcing the winners. The prizes are three copies of Free Speech Under Attack by Peter Cresswell, Jeremy Fisher, David Round, Robert Stanmore and Tim Wikiriwhi. Today we are giving away three copies to three lucky BFD
While people at home and around the world have been gripped by the spectre of Australians having their freedoms stripped away in the name of covid, another, more insidious cancer has been eating at Australians’ freedom, with barely any comment. That cancer is the raft of legislation passed by the
Graham Adams fsu.nz Graham Adams has been involved in publishing in New Zealand for the past 40 years as a journalist, columnist, reviewer, magazine editor and subeditor. He has also worked as a book editor and screenwriter. He has a BA in psychology and French, and a MA in
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