Jacinda Ardern has picked up Erich Honecker‘s playbook and talked about rolling out her own version of the Stasi, complete with citizen snitches. As is usual she has used the New Zealand version of Deutscher Fernsehfunk, Newshub, to shill her nasty piece of jack-booted commentary: Prime Minister Jacinda
Donald Digby When most people think of the America’s Cup they think of wealthy men sailing around in expensive boats representing exclusive clubs where members gather to cluck cluck and tut-tut about whatever topic is current while enjoying a drop of their favourite tipple. Something that happens for
HR Hi everyone. The BFD is humming even more than usual with 1.7 million or so people being in lockdown until recently and highly likely to be locked down again. The hot topics are, of course, covid, the government and the media. Emotions are high and commenters obviously want
Louise M Diack The purpose of computer modelling is to attempt to forecast the future. When real-world data and experimental research results conflict with computer modelling outputs, it tells us the inputs fed into the models were wrong and need changing. The curse of computer modelling is garbage in,
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Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson The ACT Party has secured an Urgent Debate in Parliament about the deaths of New Zealanders who were isolating at home with COVID-19. This debate is not about politics – it’s about people, lives have been lost and more are
The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’
NZ First “Kelvin Davis’ comment that any challenging of the Northland iwi roadblocks is just ‘racist’ is as shallow as it is wrong,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “When you set up something that is racist, criticism against it doesn’t make it racist as well.” “There
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Paul Deacon Dear Liz I write to you in your capacity as Chair of the Health Committee, which is in practice the only watchdog over the government on these matters. Please ask the government to pause (or at least modify) the vaccine rollout on the basis of information that has
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
