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MSM Starting to Turn On the PM

MSM Starting to Turn On the PM

The idea from Hardernurly’s (Jacinda Ardern’s) misleadia-managers to plagiarise the slogan ‘Test, test, test‘ in the Covid Catastrophe propaganda war has proven to be very bad advice indeed. She should have known better, communications degree ‘n all. It’s had some severe blow-back, denting her credibility,

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Government Ideology Obstructs Pandemic Decision-Making

Government Ideology Obstructs Pandemic Decision-Making

Despite new data in the US showing half of the people with the virus have no symptoms,  the government still stubbornly refuses to quarantine all Kiwis returning home. Back on February 18th Michael Woodhouse, shadow health spokesperson, was saying “The government needs to make sure adequate quarantine facilities are available

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Ardern’s ‘Chariddy of Silence’…

Ardern’s ‘Chariddy of Silence’…

It’s my own fault. Believing it was, surely, not possible to say anything more arrogant than her performance on March 19th when she declared herself and her administration “your single source of truth”, I hadn’t taken the opportunity to recalibrate my supersiliometer which carefully measures the contemptuous arrogance

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Common Sense from the Finance Minister

Common Sense from the Finance Minister

I am developing a strong respect for Grant Robertson. I never rated him much as a finance minister, simply because he has no background in finance or economics, but clearly Grant is one of the very few ministers who has worked hard to get on top of his portfolio. While

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It’s In The Bag

It’s In The Bag

It is very interesting to watch the ‘single-use’ plastic bag becoming a warrior in the war on COVID-19.  Here among the sensible folk at The BFD it has always been a given that reusable shopping bags were a health hazard.  Never more so than now. New York San

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Should China Pay Reparations?

Should China Pay Reparations?

Finance Minister Grant Robertson was interviewed by Mike Hosking on 31st of March. When asked about the effects of the Coronavirus on the New Zealand economy he was frank. “Generations will be paying for it,” he said. But should they? Should we? The devastation that was caused by the Coronavirus

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Seriously Jacinda – Who do You Think You Are?

Seriously Jacinda – Who do You Think You Are?

Berating Bauer Media for reacting to the government’s inability to think of unintended consequences of its actions really is inappropriate. You’d need to have been living in another galaxy to not be aware of the struggles of print media over the past few years. Bauer is just one.

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