Economic response to Covid Kate MacNamara (Herald): Government mulls use of $400m fund to buy stakes in firms hurt by Covid 19 (paywalled) Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Companies refusing to apply for Government sick leave subsidy to cover workers David Fisher Herald): The Road Ahead: The missing piece in our Covid-
Watching the abuse towards @MichaelMorrah I feel NZ is so very close to anarchy. When truth to power is spoken, and supporters of that power can't abide it, we start to see just how close to the precipice we truly are. We're a whisker away from
Does anyone at the NZ Herald understand the difference between “averse” and “adverse” I wonder? The BFD. Stuff up of the day. Source: NZ Herald If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
It will come as no comfort to Jacinda Ardern that her obfuscations of the last seven days haven’t gone un-noticed and yesterday’s piece by Bryce Edwards on The Democracy Project is a very good pastiche of the obvious holes in her handling of the border problems fall-
What an interesting read Simon Wilson provided in the Weekend Herald. The headline was “Good luck, bad management”. The good luck he talked about was different to our understanding of it but the bad management was pretty much spot on. He talked about the border not being as secure as
PM’s levels announcement, govt management of coronavirus Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern faces little opposition to alert level extension Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): A nervous week ahead for a suddenly vulnerable government (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Covid “here for some time” say Ardern and Collins Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Experts
P.J. Gladnick papundits.wordpress.com A Republican governor who lifts a ban on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 would understandably not be big news. However, what would be a major news development would be if a Democrat governor lifted such a ban. In fact,
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The worm has finally turned as the government’s avalanche of failures is becoming too large for even the MSM to ignore least they look like complete lapdogs. The 50 Million dollars cash injection from the government can only go so far as the better journalists wrestle with their images
Back on the 2nd of May last year, we heard from The BFD correspondent WH about New Zealand’s major media outlets sudden desire to hide the truth from their readers, watchers and listeners when it came to reporting on the Christchurch murders carried out by Brenton Tarrant. It seemed
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Michelle Duff claims in an ‘analysis’ for “trustworthy, accurate and reliable” Stuff: 90 per cent of those who have lost their jobs post-Covid are women Yesterday I quoted another source that debunked the number. The shocking revelation – that of the 11,000 fewer people
Border failures, criticism Hayden Donnell (RNZ): Mediawatch: A backlash over tough questions for Dr Ashley Bloomfield Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup – How serious are the Govt’s border botch-ups? Andrea Vance (Stuff): Big little lies: Getting to the facts in New Zealand’s border failures Michael Morrah (Newshub): Conflicting
Jacinda, I like you, but please shut up about the team of five million […] It struck me too, that Jacinda wears black like a widowed Queen Victoria when she has bad news, and white like the good fairy when she has worse news,
The world’s most appropriate 403 page ever… The BFD. Stuff up of the day. Source: Stuff. (They are not even trying to hide it these days LOL). If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
The Art of Trolling is all about getting your opponent to respond in a way that makes him think that he is harming you when he is actually harming himself. The undisputed champion of trolling is, of course, Donald Trump. Newshub thoughtfully provides us with a great example. Donald Trump
Ashley Bloomfield looks strangely like the ghost of Jacinda Ardern. Is there something they are not telling us? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
