Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com Guy Hatchard PhD is formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a food safety testing and certification company. This is the first of a series of reflective articles on Covid data and causality. I note that the Ministry of Health Covid-19 Science Updates web
Ananish Chaudhuri ananishchaudhuri.com Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19.” As we approach the second anniversary of WHO’s designation of Covid 19 as a pandemic in March 2020, many countries
Dear Editor The increasing use of Aotearoa or Aotearoa New Zealand and a corresponding drop in the use of New Zealand, without any mandate from the people, is of concern. We had a referendum a few years ago on changing our flag and that is how such changes should be
As time moves forward those of us who resisted mandates, stood strong, and thumbed our nose at the divisiveness promulgated by the evil regime of the tyrant Ardern, are getting to multiple ‘I told you so’ moments. The more people who are double or triple vaxxed catching the WuPox the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week or so back Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta issued a warning to Putin re invading the Ukraine. I’ve waited to see if it worked. Well, it certainly appears to have done as ever since the Russians have issued appeasement noises. Putin suffers from
In the car, I tuned to radio bulletins yet I still had no idea what crazy Ardern had proposed for us long-suffering everyday Kiwis. The timetable seemed so disorganized, complex and completely over the top. Was this to subtly keep continued control of each and every one of us?
If you have a great Youtube, Rumble, Odysee or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz Transcript of David Seymour’s State of the Nation Speech 2022 3 February, 2022 Introduction Thank you very much to Russell McVeagh for hosting this event. Thank you to Tim
Given the Government has listened to National’s policy to end MIQ for vaccinated travellers and recognised the importance of rapid tests, National is proposing more ideas to improve the response to Omicron, says National’s COVID-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Today, National is releasing our 10-point plan
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. ‘There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.’ Nelson Mandela Masking children is not indicated and is a huge threat to child well-being while masking
“Every time a business closes, that’s lost wealth, health, relationships and sometimes lives as well.” – Geoff Neal, NZ Business Consultant. How much more pressure can businesses in New Zealand take? Many have had their profit margins slashed. Customer and staff levels were reduced as Ardern’s vaccine mandates came
Donald Digby Having been an ex-pat for close to 15 years now it was wonderful to finally make it back home to New Zealand for a long-overdue Christmas and New Year. This was the longest I had ever been away from home and as much as I was
Could somebody please send Poto Williams a copy of Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics? Actually, don’t bother: it’s got big words, lots of them, and no pictures. Besides, as we all know, basic economics are kryptonite to the Ardern government. Which is a pity because if they had
Let us not pretend that Charlotte Bellis is not totally responsible for the promised opening up of the borders that had been slammed shut indefinitely in December. For reasons I have constantly failed to understand, our ‘open and transparent government’ has ridden roughshod over New Zealand’s citizens for the
Hot on the heels of proposing new taxes, the tyrant‘s regime is now talking about rent controls to help people struggling with the cost of accommodation. They’ve proven that they have no real solutions for housing after abandoning their flagship Kiwibuild policy as an ignominious failure. So rent
Labour’s housing policies have failed and Kiwis are paying the price with soaring housing costs and a new threat of retrograde price controls, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. In an increasingly desperate game of policy whack-a-mole, Associate Housing Minister Poto Williams yesterday said rent controls
