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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

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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

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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

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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

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Do You Trust Us?

Do You Trust Us?

The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’

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NZ Herald Publishers Give in to Twitter Mob

NZ Herald Publishers Give in to Twitter Mob

You’ll remember the work we’ve done to defend the rights of the feminist group Speak Up For Women (SUFW), which was de-platformed from speaking at council-owned venues about proposed amendments to the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995. Now NZME (publishers of the NZ

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Just in case you missed the main story on page 3, the BoP Times provides a short summary on page 7. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.

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BBC Heresy! ‘Climate Change Isn’t All Bad’

BBC Heresy! ‘Climate Change Isn’t All Bad’

In a time of universal deceit about climate change, telling the truth is not just a revolutionary, but a positively heretical act. Just ask, say, Bjorn Lomborg or Judith Curry. Even speaking from personal experience, nothing induces pure, spitting rage in a climate botherer so much as calmly reciting facts

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Herald Jokes about No Media Bias

Herald Jokes about No Media Bias

It’s always good to start the weekend with a good piece of humour, and page C4 of the Business Section of the Weekend Herald provided it. The page was devoted to a typically well-written opinion piece by Bruce Cotterill. Cotterill was commenting that any chance of the media

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