David Seymour ACT Party Leader Associate Minister of Health Medsafe has approved eleven cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government
JD We are continually told that various groups in New Zealand suffer from systemic discrimination and that whatever is wrong in their lives is the fault of others, not of themselves. Politicians and political parties of a certain stripe are regularly in the news promoting these ideas and demanding that
There are too many past Prime Ministers who, having left office, continue to interfere in the politics of the present time. Current Prime Ministers who have been elected to do a job do not need constant input from their predecessors. Their jobs are hard enough without past ‘know it alls’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s no better example of an overstaffed government Department with time on its hands and thus becoming “creative”, than the Health and Safety mob and their ludicrous road cones excesses. Nowhere else in the world does this occur, nor was it ever deemed necessary
Talbot Mills, Labour’s own pollster, has released a word cloud to its corporate clients about what people think of Chris Hipkins. It’s not flash, with the biggest words being “unsure” and “weak”. Labour leader Chris Hipkins has reacted to new research revealing what New Zealanders think of him
By way of antidote, perhaps, to the recent spate of Jeremiads railing against Jacinda Ardern in the pages of The Australian, both that publication and fellow Aussie conservative masthead, Quadrant, have published equal-and-opposite hagiographies of Luxon and Co. They might furnish BFD readers with a scoffing chuckle or
bobmccoskrie.com Media Trust Scorecard is ‘F’ For Fake News or Fail or (no) Future … A new report measures how much Kiwis trust the news media, and it has plummeted to a new low. It should actually be a wake-up call to the media if they want to avoid
Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government democracyproject.substack.com The media is in crisis, as New Zealand audiences flee from traditional sources of news and information.
The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia Poll is out and the coalition has slipped somewhat but is still ahead in terms of seats and is still in a position to govern. But this poll does show how precarious the situation is with MMP: a few percentage points change and we are
Half a year has passed since Labor were tossed out of office, and just over a year since Jacinda Ardern scuttled off to whatever cushy globalist sinecure awaits Klaus Schwab’s minions, denying New Zealand voters the chance to pass their own judgement. Which perhaps explains the appearance of, not
As I’ve repeatedly warned BFD readers, always assume that a so-called “fact-checker” is trying to mislead you. But, if it’s bad enough that professional, often taxpayer-funded, liars in cahoots with the mainstream media are bullshitting you, it’s far worse when a statutory body is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Nearly two years ago, in July 2021 when the Labour government was riding high in the polls and the nation had lost its head and was acclaiming Jacinda as the second coming, I wrote on this site the article reproduced below. Understandably it was treated
Disgruntled of Eskdale Like the aptly named Red Queen of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ fame, who could believe “as many as six impossible things before breakfast’, it seems the socialist politicians and economists of New Zealand can also believe at least two impossibly opposite ideas at the same time. The current
Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government democracyproject.substack.com Pay cuts, wage restraint, and redundancies are currently being forced on everyone in the government sector. Except
Chris Trotter democracyproject.substack.com JACK TAME has tested another MP on his Sunday morning current affairs show, Q+A. Minister for Workplace Relations & Safety, Brooke van Velden, once boasted the only economics degree in New Zealand’s Parliament. Since the general election, however, this select fellowship of the
