Press Release: ACT Party There has never been such comprehensive parliamentary scrutiny of a bill as the End of Life Choice Bill. 39,000 public submissions, 16 months in select committee, four months in Committee of the Whole House, nearly two years from First Reading to Third Reading. The Third
As if private landlords don’t need another example of why they should get out of providing rental housing this should give them the incentive. Meet the tenant from hell. “A New Lynn landlord says methamphetamine-related damage by a tenant was so bad they had to take out a mortgage
Proponents of medical killing invariably couch their defence in terms of “safeguards”. This might seem plausible enough in theory – but practical experience is quite another matter. As practical experience shows, once the laws are passed and the Rubicon crossed, “safeguards” are very quickly watered down. In the Netherlands, for instance,
As Theodore Dalrymple has written, “To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself…a society of emasculated liars is easy to control”. The West is fast becoming a society dominated by literally emasculated liars. But the greatest evil being perpetrated is not the obvious
CRISPR technology has taken a new leap. Scientist David Liu of the Broad Institute says that fine tuning of this gene editing technology could correct about 89 percent of the mutations in human heritable diseases. Legal and Media analyst Lionel breaks it all down (13:29). Talks between Turkish President
Perhaps this post should come under the banner of ‘Whinging Crybaby Vegan of the Week’ but hey, no red-blooded bloke wants to see his sausage flogged, especially by some scrawny screeching Vegan harpie. You would think that you could go out for a nice charity walk in support of Breast
When the medical lobby first campaigned against tobacco, certain perceptive observers questioned whether they might start getting carried away with their own success and turn into the Fun Police. Oh no, the white-coated wowsers swore, it was only about tobacco. They weren’t going to start browbeating about alcohol, or
Before I even read the article on Newshub about why dog owners are likely to live longer, I came up with my own theory. (Disclaimer: I am a dog lover and hate cats due to a traumatic incident in childhood). Do you want to know all about it? Okay then
Steven looks at the medical benefits and drawbacks of both nicotine and medical marijuana to make an unbiased comparison of the two. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Why the simple egg is a key ingredient of many vaccines. You can’t make a flu vaccine without a few eggs – up to 360,000 a day, in fact. Come inside pharmaceutical company GSK’s vaccine factory to discover why tens of millions of eggs are needed each year
Mike Hosking is one of the best in the business. Week after week he nails it while rarking up the usual suspects. However his piece regarding pill testing is in my opinion totally misguided and wrong, and with the greatest respect here’s why. Winston Peters as the voice of
Some feminists are belatedly waking up to the fact that there’s not much room under the rainbow flag for women. As the “progressives” push harder and harder for so-called “transgender rights”, the rights of women, it seems, can go to hell. Transgenderism is rapidly stripping women of everything from
What happens after you’ve had your bits chopped off and decide that, actually, you were much happier with your biological sex? Oops, I guess you’d like reverse gender reassignment surgery, but what does that look like? It sounds pretty ugly – bumpy scars and a patchwork quilt come to
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