NZ Politics
The Style Council
Arthur The Style Council was a band formed in 1982 by ex-The Jam member Paul Weller. This is not about them. It is about the Wellington City Council more concerned with virtue signalling style and green ideology than doing its core job, which is infrastructure and running the city
Letter to the Editor:
Dear Editor On 2nd September the Taranaki Daily News devoted its whole front page to the story about the millions of dollars being allotted to the Green School. Nothing special there, you might say, as just about every newspaper in the country did the same. Neither is the fact that
Tipping Points
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Public sentiment is full of ‘tipping points’ – critical moments when small influences trigger more significant developments. We’ve seen a number of political tipping points over recent years that have contributed to the changing fortunes of parties and elections. The performance of United Future’s
Guaranteed to Raise your Hackles and Blood Pressure
The PM’s skinny frame and tired face is an indication of the tough road she’s on. Faced with hard questions from Ryan Bridge on the AM show earlier this week she pursed her lips and sniffed when asked to accept responsibility for the border failure that allowed COVID
LIVE: Knock, Knock (Trad Tasman Talk Ep.44)
Dieuwe de Boer and Tim Wilms return in a new episode of TTT as all manner of crazy things happen in the locked-down cities of Auckland and Melbourne. We’ll talk about the news from the past week and then answer your questions. Subscribe and ring the bell to
Political Training Videos
Folks, have you ever seen our prime minister actually answer a question? I assume that these are the videos that Labour uses to train the PM. Open government Standard excuses The smoke screen If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.
Cause and Effect
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com The root of murderous, terrorist KKK Woke-Fascist Only Black Lives Matter and PROFA is Academia. Privileged, taxpayer-funded, smug, snarky, postmodern, righteously evil Academia, such as, in New Zealand, the taxpayer-funded School of Music. The root of all evil is philosophical, especially when it’
BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 National Party
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 National Party. ? #ANNOUNCEMENT National recognises that the first 1000 days
Government Must Ease Border Blockage for Critical Workers
NZ Initiative Wellington, 3 September 2020 – A chokepoint at the border is blocking entry of critical workers and suffocating the economy, according to a new paper from The New Zealand Initiative. New Zealand’s small size means both the public and private sectors often need international experts with niche skills.
Our Political Comedians
Jacinda, Grant, Chris, Megan and Phil, do me a favour and just naff off. I am sick to death of being told what instructions to follow on a daily basis. I wouldn’t mind quite so much if you could implement your own rules but you have shown consistently that
Elimination Goal Must Be Officially Ended
Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The Government’s objective of eliminating COVID-19 is at an end, due to advice from the WHO, challenges of the Auckland lockdown, and plummeting cases and deaths internationally. There were signals this week that elimination and lockdowns are over, as the Government moved to
Our “Single Source of Truth” Continues to Lie
For the life of me, I can’t work out why our “single source of truth” continues to lie about ‘that’ message. I have my hunches, but first, we need to consider why the message by “someone from comms” elicits only obfuscation from the great podium of porkies, which to