Mouth watering is a foodie way to say to salivate Over here in the Middle East, the most common style of poultry consumed is the meat of the chicken leg and thigh. This is very unlike the norm throughout most of the West where the most popular cut of the
rt.com The UK government has criticised students at Oxford University’s Magdalen College as “simply absurd” for voting to remove a portrait of the Queen over concerns that it’s a symbol of Britain’s “recent colonial history.” Speaking after the vote, which was taken at the college’s
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. ‘[…] there are risks that, if done poorly, compulsory history in our schools could veer into the realm of indoctrination. It is no coincidence that one of the first functions authoritarian regimes undertake on assuming power is to produce
New Zealand’s mainstream media won’t do it, so it’s up to the remaining independent-minded Australian media to hold a well-deserved blowtorch to the Ardern government. First, Australia’s 60 Minutes has already given the prime minister an unexpected dose of tough questioning on China. Now,
I’m grateful to my former North Shore MP, Hon Wayne Mapp, whose electorate chairman I was for most of his time in Parliament, for reminding me that the remit I suggested in last week’s column here at The BFD was over-complicated by trying to cover too many
Matthew Tukaki is a Maori activist who uses divisive rhetoric. He is a polarising figure who is agitating for Maori separatism and apartheid in New Zealand, fomenting racial discord while accusing those who oppose his agenda of being the ones causing a racial divide. While he is quick to accuse
As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by MarcWills . Thank you MarcWills for taking the time to craft such an
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Will Tikanga law, that a High Court justice cited in a coastal area ruling, include inter-tribal warfare, cannibalism, slavery, and other primitive customs, or will it just be a modern version, historian Dr John Robinson asked this week. Dr Robinson, who wrote Dividing the nation:
When we think of Ancient Rome, we invariably think of togas, names ending in -ius and Victor Mature in a jockstrap, battling lions in the Colosseum. We also tend to imagine Julius Caesar, Augustus and Nero chilling out at the Games in the Colosseum. But the Colosseuem wasn’t actually
Naomi Braithwaite Nottingham Trent University Naomi is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Branding.In 2012 Naomi achieved a doctorate from Nottingham Trent University in the discipline of material culture, titled: ‘Shoe Design: an Ethnographic Study of Creativity’. The empirical focus of the thesis centred on the creative practice
Ever since Rousseau fondly imagined “noble savages”, it’s been fashionable among certain types of people to imagine that primitive peoples wafted about like hippies with flint tools. Surviving paleolithic cultures are patronised as “at one with their environment” and peaceable and “Zen like”. The truth is brutally different. As
Phyllo, philo, filo pastry: the Eastern Med pastry Phyllo means leaf in Greek and is the healthy person’s version of the French mille feuille. The Greek version of puff pastry, unlike its Francophone cousin, contains no fat or butter and is made from flour, water and a little bit
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In their report Towards a Better Democracy, the 1986 Labour Government’s Royal Commission into the Electoral System, not only recommended changing our voting system to MMP, but they raised a number of other important constitutional matters. One that is particularly relevant to our present
Josh Van Veen Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Josh Van Veen is former member of NZ First and worked as a parliamentary researcher to Winton Peters from 2011 to 2013. He has a Masters in Politics from the University of Auckland. His thesis examined class voting
