The take-over is a fait accompli. The civil service walks in a left-wing goose-step. Our universities are left-wing. Our teachers are too, as is our education system. Our corporates toe the line. Our parliamentarians, generally speaking, are, and our legal system sways to the left in
Sky News has apologised after broadcasting footage of Prince Andrew during a report on the suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Police Duncan Garner (Newshub): Why I don’t believe Andrew Coster when he says he wants an unarmed police service Jordan Bond (RNZ): The Detail: Why Armed Response Teams struck the wrong note in NZ Newstalk ZB: Defence expert: New Zealand should avoid militarising police Vita Molyneux (Newshub): People Against
Why make one stuff up when you can make two? I presume they mean “wreaks” not “wrecks” and COVID-19 not “Swine flu” If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
A reader sent in an interesting idea yesterday evening. Stuff has increasingly prevented any comments on lots of articles. Maybe a new BFD column could be headed; “We allow you to make comments on Stuff articles when they don’t”. Then list a few headlines (with links) that they put
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Police * Zane Small (Newshub): Celebration or failed consultation? Police Association still at odds with Greens on armed cops * Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Green Party overjoyed at police decision to dump Armed Response Teams * RNZ: Petitioner urges police to talanoa after Armed Response Teams scrapped * Sam Sherwood and Collette Devlin (Stuff): Police
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They must dump a lot of trucks. People are dumping food, clothing, appliances, nappies, tools, bedding and green waste into their yellow bin, undermining their neighbours’ recycling efforts. Trucks containing more than 10 per cent rubbish have to be dumped. Council three waters and waste head Helen Beaumont said buyers
With so many of the blocks already stacked in this wannabe socialist utopia of ours, according to one particular wag at that regular fountain of meandering philosophical inquiry, the local watering hole, we as a country may as well go all-in Stalin-esque and have ourselves a ‘Show Trial’
Alert Level 1 move, recovery Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Psychologists reveal New Zealand’s political shift during lockdown Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Hooray for level 1. Now what? (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister’s reward for Covid-19 zeroes (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Time to celebrate, then to rebuild Heather
The other day left-wing site The Spinoff declared that they had reached 10,000 subscribers. That is quite some achievement, so well done to Duncan and his team at The Spinoff. Their model is a ‘pay what you can’ model but they’d prefer you to contribute $10 a
Transmission Gully is under “constriction”, apparently. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
NZ First Audrey Young (Herald): The two contrasting faces of Winston Peters (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Balance is vital for Peters and NZ First (paywalled) Richard Harman: Jones claims the Nats will get dirty in Northland Dan Satherley and Delphine Herbert (Newshub): Can Shane Jones win Northland and
If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate
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