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Sunetra Gupta on Unprofessional Conduct of Pro-lockdown Scientists

Sunetra Gupta on Unprofessional Conduct of Pro-lockdown Scientists

covidplanb.co.nz Sunetra Gupta, a founding signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, wrote for the Daily Mail. Here is an edited set of excerpts. I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not

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Karens Complain That “Karen” Is “Hate Speech”

Karens Complain That “Karen” Is “Hate Speech”

As I write this, polls are yet to close on the US election, but an interesting tidbit to emerge from, of all places, the New York Times, is that voters for Joe Biden are most likely to be women named “Karen”. You can’t make this up. But this raises

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Crybaby of the Week

Crybaby of the Week

Today’s crybaby Sir Stevo Timothy ( A popular woke comedian) really does have something worth crying about. Crybaby Stevo didn’t care about censorship or freedom of speech until he was censored and his freedom of speech was taken away. In fact, he didn’t believe those who were warning

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Dispatches from the Great Awokening

Dispatches from the Great Awokening

Michael Kirke mercatornet.com Michael Kirke was born in Ireland. In 1966 he graduated from University College Dublin (History and Politics). In that year he began working on the sub-editorial desk of The Evening… More by Michael Kirke Given our strange and uncertain current political and cultural landscape, it

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Be Careful What You Voted for – You Might Just Get It!

Be Careful What You Voted for – You Might Just Get It!

The cross-over voters who joined diehard Labour voters in giving Jacinda Ardern’s incoming Labour Government the first-ever single-party majority since we saddled ourselves with MMP in 1996 may live to regret their short-sighted impetuosity. They may well get more than they bargained for. The 9-

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Cancel Culture Comes for BFD Columnist

Cancel Culture Comes for BFD Columnist

Starting late Monday night and then continuing on all Tuesday morning I was sent a number of e-mails by members of a Twitter lynch mob. They disagreed with an opinion expressed on Twitter by one of our Insight: Politics columnists and expected me as The BFD editor to cancel

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Someone, Please Tell Paul Hunt That Safety Is Not a Human Right.

Someone, Please Tell Paul Hunt That Safety Is Not a Human Right.

Stephen Franks Free Speech Coalition The Human Rights Commission is gunning for hate speech laws with taxpayer funding and the support of the Government. The Human Rights Commission report released yesterday has called for a balance to be struck between “freedom of speech and the right to be safe.” It

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Better Watch What You Say Over Your Neeps and Tatties

Better Watch What You Say Over Your Neeps and Tatties

As Theodore Dalrymple has noted, the Scottish National Party are nationalists and socialists: they are National Socialists. In fact, the ties of the SNP to Nazism run all the way back to its founding. Founding member and second chairman, Andrew Dewar Gibb, frequently quoted Hitler in speeches, and although he

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The Day the Truth Died

The Day the Truth Died

The journalist that risked everything to break the Edward Snowden story, Glenn Greenwald, has just resigned from the United States news outlet The Intercept. This is astonishing because he founded The Intercept after the challenges of getting Snowden’s message out into the public eye. The sole purpose of The

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Attacking Free Speech

Attacking Free Speech

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com For the first time since MMP was introduced in 1996, New Zealand voters have given a single political party the absolute power to govern alone. Whether Labour decides to exercise that authority or share their mandate with the Greens, remains to be seen. Whatever arrangement

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“Some People Did Something”

“Some People Did Something”

Why Muslims don’t address the possibility, however remote, of Muslim extremists infiltrating NZ mosques surprises me. Overseas terrorism does not allay fears, it inflames them. NZ Muslim organisations should be distancing themselves and providing reassurance instead of treating public fear as a personal insult and lobbying for “hate speech”

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

When someone like left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald the founder and editor of The Intercept resigns in disgust you know that the news story is as bad as it is big. The second part to the Biden family’s corruption story is the MSMs deliberate silence, cover-up, deflection and/

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