This is Director-general of Health Ashley Bloomfield. He is a very familiar face to all of us watching the daily updates while under lockdown. The Otago Daily Times however is not so familiar with him and think that he is a she! If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up
Sir Bob Jones This article was first published on nopunchespulled.com and is republished with permission. The demise of the Women’s Weekly, Metro, North & South and the Listener et al should come as no surprise. Furthermore, it had nothing to do with coronavirus, rather it was entirely due
For the nostalgia buffs. Do you remember when the lefty-press (almost all of them) said talk of a lockdown was fake news, totalitarian, and all that? Do you remember when they said it would cause massive social alarm and induce panic? Do you remember when Ms Ardern, the single
Government, parliament Andrea Vance (Stuff): How Jacinda Ardern is using soft propaganda to beat Covid-19 Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): On being sure of your legal footing Sam Hurley (Herald): Law Society calls for greater Govt clarity on curbs to our freedoms and commerce (paywalled) Eugene Bingham and Adam Dudding
Make your mind up Stuff. Which is it? * $1.8 Million? * Almost $2 Billion? * $1.8 Billion? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
The trials of Cardinal George Pell are perhaps the most consequential in Australian legal, media and social spheres in decades. But their lessons will almost certainly be ignored. The legal system, especially in Victoria, will engage in assiduous arse-covering. Victorian Police Minister, the unflushable Labor hack Lisa Neville, has
Most New Zealanders willing to extend Covid-19 lockdown ‘pain’ – survey […] people were asked if they would be willing to remain in lockdown for at least another two weeks beyond 22 April when it is due to finish. Sixty percent agreed they would, 14 percent disagreed, and 26 percent didn’
It’s possible to learn a lot in a short time. For instance; if you wanted to learn about mass and gravity quickly you could drop a hammer on your toe: a very brief lesson, but one which you would remember. I did the mental equivalent: listening to a podcast
It appears that the NZ Herald can’t even add these days! If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
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Is it a worse-case scenario or a worst-case scenario? The correct usage would be worst-case scenario. A worst-case scenario is characterized by the worst of the possible foreseeable circumstances. It is the most extreme scenario. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please
Newshub gets the fundamentals wrong. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Wibble BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the Media Party: Below are some election advertisements run by
Stuff can’t count. Sam plus five should be six. But don’t worry, they double down and manage to make it seven in the next photo. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Orwell described what he called “negative nationalism”, a “derisive and mildly hostile attitude” to their own country. It was, he wrote, a “more or less compulsory…[but] unfaked in many cases” attitude among the left-intelligentsia. Put simply, the left-intelligentsia enjoy kicking their country whenever they can. So when
