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There Is No ‘Code Red’ in IPCC 6

It’s not for nothing that the Royal Society’s motto is Nullius in Verba. “Take no one’s word for it.” Sadly, the Society itself rarely lives up to that motto any more, having long ago traded scepticism for right-on gullibility. Especially when it comes to climate change. Yet

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Comparing Apples with Apples: The Spinoff and The BFD

Comparing Apples with Apples: The Spinoff and The BFD

The Spinoff has the same size audience as The BFD but the similarities end there. The BFD is funded 95% by our one thousand plus members and 5% by our advertising revenue. The BFD serves a broad church of political views that includes libertarian, centre-right, and conservative readers of whom

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Performing Flea ‘Showing National How It’s Done’

Helped by a fawning media keen to vilify National’s Judith Collins and glorify David Seymour, the Act leader, the ‘it’ boy of the moment, is the male version of Ardern with the addition of brain power and pragmatism, but sits at the other end of the spectrum, which may

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Unprofessional Face of the Day

Unprofessional Face of the Day

It was short-lived leader Todd Muller who signed up media trainer Janet Wilson to be his chief press officer until the election. Previously she had been involved in media and election debate training for former Prime Ministers Sir John Key and Sir Bill English, as well as several other National

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Smear by Implication; David Seymour Wants Whanau to Die.

Smear by Implication; David Seymour Wants Whanau to Die.

Arthur Yes, you read that correctly. It is blatant clickbait on my part but that was how I read it. In a backhanded way that was what was implied by one Joel Maxwell. He is a contributor to that dire, woke and socialist swamp, NZ Stuff and its Wellington, pimple

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Proudly Independent or Meekly Compliant?

Proudly Independent or Meekly Compliant?

Cards on the table at the outset: last Saturday morning, this in the Weekend Herald gave me a gutsful. It led to me emailing colleagues in an email chat group, saying: Murray Kirkness is a bloody hypocrite with his mendacious  “Proudly Independent” claptrap on Herald on-line republishing rot from The

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The Last Questions Jason Walls Will Ask the Prime Minister?

The Last Questions Jason Walls Will Ask the Prime Minister?

Mike Hosking listened to the full Covid-19 presentation on Monday 13 September and yesterday commented on questions Jason Walls asked the Prime Minister regarding lockdown. Newstalk ZB on demand for Tuesday 14 September for 7:45 am beginning 3.59 minutes into the recording. The recordings played by Mike Hosking

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The Link Between Race and IQ Is Real — But Not Immutable

The Link Between Race and IQ Is Real — But Not Immutable

Jim Goad wrote that the left have their heads “so far up their own asses with the idea that they are unimpeachably good, I suspect they may all soon suffocate to death”. As he admitted though, that was probably just so much wishful thinking. After all, Paddy Gower is somehow

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The Latest Media Bias Results

The Latest Media Bias Results

Last year a website was set up to measure media bias in New Zealand. Both Kiwiblog and The BFD  were mentioned and rated, as were left-wing blogs and all mainstream media. Back then Newshub was rated as the most biased (towards the left) of all the mainstream media. The BFD

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Person of No Particular Description Does Something

Person of No Particular Description Does Something

As Mark Steyn once observed, “the airbrush is mightier than the sword”. Once upon a time, the mission of journalism was guided by Kipling’s “Six Honest Serving-Men”: What, Why, When, How, Where and Who. The first principle of the honest journalist is to identify each and report it without

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