Everyone has been talking about the interview with Leo Molloy by ‘Comedian’ Guy Williams. It shows Leo Molloy as an out-of-control, mouthy upstart. But it turns out, though, that the interview was in fact a hit job by Guy Williams, and designed to tank support for Leo Molloy.
Today’s face of the day Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker was “shocked” by our PM’s behaviour. Perhaps Ardern knows that masks don’t work and that she has nothing to fear from Covid-19? After all, if she was genuinely fearful would she have removed it for the photo?
Information Opinion It is bad enough that the environmentalists talk non stop about the climate crisis without having them introduce policies to essentially destroy the rural sector. But that is what seems to be happening. And this time they’ve gone too far. The rural sector can tolerate the rhetoric
DaveOnTheWestBank After enjoying my Sunday two-egg omelette and observing the frost-covered lawn I settled down to read the 5th of July edition of Rural News, the front page headline of which read, “Avalanche Warning”. “Outgoing Federated Farmers leader Karen Williams says an avalanche of state-sponsored regulations is
CR Information Opinion On 14 July I received this notice from a Dr Chamberlain: Protect yourself and your whanau over winter Kia ora [ redacted], Why get a second COVID-19 booster? COVID-19 is on the rise in our communities, and the number of people getting infected with new variants
Dr Saad Al-Harran Email: drsaadalharran@yahoo.com Dr Saad Al-Harran is a social scientist who specialises in social ills in New Zealand. After what happened to my beloved son at the playground of his school where he was treated like a football, we as a family made the
Colin Parkinson Information Opinion I read the following disturbing article on The BFD last week. https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/07/16/could-the-right-to-an-abortion-be-removed-in-new-zealand/ In the article, Stuart Smith wrote that “our country’s laws on abortion will remain as they
The Reserve Bank has a statutory requirement to keep inflation under control and to keep it within a band of 0-2%. For five quarters in a row, inflation has exceeded the statutory limits, yet Adrian Orr still remains the Reserve bank Governor. Yesterday inflation hit 7.3%, the highest
The Immigration Minister’s not putting a timeline on when he’ll decide if the Government’s controversial pathway to residency settings for nurses needs to change, instead saying he’s keeping in contact with the health sector weekly. Newshub Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you
Congratulations, New Zealand! You’re better than Kuwait! Now, to be fair, I really like New Zealand, but, as an Australian, I’m more-or-less duty-bound to poke fun at you any chance I get. Sometimes, New Zealand gets bowled one that just goes straight through to the
New Zealand First Media It is said the “trouble with publishing is that too many people with half a mind to write a book, do so”. Or as Winston Churchill would put it, the trouble with Andrea Vance and reality is that they are separated by the English language. Words
Information Opinion New Zealanders were forced to read the tea leaves regarding Labour’s (hidden) 2020 election manifesto whilst, behind the scenes, the taxpayer-funded Mahuta family worked on the He Puapua policy. Recently Grant Robertson joined in the discussion around the US Supreme Court decision on abortion and did
Information Opinion The future of mining in NZ is pretty grim under our Green-aligned, unproductive government. At the rate it spends money, anyone of mediocre intelligence would figure out that producing money should be high on the agenda. Not so. Their much touted climate emergency ranks above growing the
Information Opinion I came to New Zealand in the 1980s as an expat. It was a lovely place. Friendly people, low levels of traffic, fabulous beaches, jobs easy to come by. I thought I had come to heaven. I raved about the place to family and friends back home. Now,
