Karl Du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com I spent a couple of hours wandering the streets of downtown Wellington this week. What a dismal experience. Actually, it was worse than dismal. It was profoundly depressing. The city where I spent most of my working life looks as if it has lost
Jacinda posted the above photo on Friday saying that she needed to use the ironing board as a desk. However, one of the BFD’s readers located a photo of her hotel room that contains a…wait for it… Ooops…awkward. If you enjoyed this article please share it using
The Government’s quiet move to allow unvaccinated New Zealand citizens and other travellers back into the country is welcome, but further calls into question their Traffic Light Framework, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “National welcomes the Government’s move to abolish restrictions on the unvaccinated entering
Kevin Bird In NZ politics, has personal integrity been sacrificed on the altar of group-think? Has the pendulum of “democracy” swung away from individual thought, freedom, integrity and accountability towards a form of Hive-like group-think? Has a callousness emerged which is willing to exclude or exterminate the
Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson With the roar, tahr culling and duck hunting season just around the corner, the time it’s taking to get a firearms licence keeps getting longer. There are 2694 people currently waiting 12 months or more for their licence to be processed. That’
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food safety testing and certification company (now known as FoodChain ID) As you probably know, ‘taking the fifth’ is an American expression that refers to the fifth amendment of the US constitution. When
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Yesterday a new paper at an
Do you remember all those years ago when Jacinda Ardern was promising everyone that she would “govern for all New Zealanders”? Do you remember when she said to “know us by our deeds”? Do you remember when she said she was leading “the most open and transparent Government in history”
This morning I tested COVID positive, a few days after becoming a household contact and isolating – and two days after gnarly symptoms kicked in. (Thread) — Chlöe Swarbrick (@_chloeswarbrick) March 19, 2022 Chloe Swarbrick has caught Covid which is very strange because firstly she wears a mask wherever she goes and…
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government has staged a quiet, Friday afternoon backdown on vaccine mandates, updating the MBIE website so that unvaccinated citizens and residents can re-enter the country without isolation. As recently as Thursday, unvaccinated citizens and residents were required to go through MIQ upon returning
New Zealand First Media The ‘Kashmir Files’ has been shown in America, Australia, India and many other locations around the world. To date the film has been viewed by over 1.1 billion people. The film is about true and real events surrounding the 1990 ethnic cleansing of Hindus in
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Newshub Nation this morning reported that vaccine passes will be gone by April 13th, why not just do it now? ACT was the first party to say it’s time to move on. Last month we released a cost benefit analysis on all of the
Kevin Bird NZ’s democratic system is built around party politics. Historically each party was formed because of a weakness or problem in society. A new party would be formed or voted into power because the public felt that a change was necessary. This worked for a long time but
Capitalist Many moons ago, when but a stripling of 18, I first moved to Auckland and found a flat in Glendowie; a week later Sir Robert Muldoon retired and the Tamaki by-election ensued. This caused me and 35,000 other Tamaki electorate residents no end of annoyance. I was
We recently travelled from the West Coast (Westport) to Christchurch for a friend’s wedding. It is a few years since I had been to Christchurch, and the bride and groom had a lot of guests coming from out-of-town, so they approached a local hotel and provisionally reserved
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 New Zealand has unravelled. The values and knowledge that underpin a free and prosperous society have been turned inside out, upside down and trashed. It has happened overnight
