Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic.
David Seymour ACT Leader Everything Jacinda Ardern based yesterday’s decision on was true two weeks ago, the only thing that’s changed is politics. Two weeks ago, there were about 20 cases each day, most new cases were within households, but a few new cases popped up to keep
Jacinda Ardern chose to make this pandemic political: of that there is absolutely no doubt. At the very onset, in the first week of March 2020, a group of our senior epidemiologists whose names are all very familiar to us now: Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Prof Michael
If James Shaw was giving consolation gifts to Kiwis desperately trying to get home this Christmas he’d likely give them a lump of coal, having confirmed he plans to take 14 staff with him to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says.
Micky Turner Dear Newshub, Herald, TVNZ and RNZ, This is a complaint about the lack of balance in your reporting about the drug Remdesivir: * newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/covid-19-new-zealand-evaluating-antibody-cocktail-ronapreve-for-treatment.html * nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-
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
**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view from the hills to the north of Oxford looking west to the Torlesse Range with Porters Pass left of
Catherine Tait Frank’s Diary is a fictional account of a 16-year-old struggling with the decision of whether to have the covid vaccine. Information Fiction Week 1 I have taken up journaling again. It helps to put my thoughts on to paper. I am a bit worried about
Brian Tamaki Information Opinion Enough is enough! Come stand with us in Auckland on Saturday the 2nd of October! We demand our freedoms back! NO MORE LOCKDOWNS! We want to be… • Free to Choose • Free to Work • Free to Farm • Free to Trade • Free to Parent • Free to Travel • Free
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week ago I wrote its time to arm the police, an attitude inconceivable to me up until the last half dozen years. Well talk of the devil, two days later the New Zealand Herald came out with a polling survey I was unaware they
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Robin Grieve The angry reaction by some Pacific Islanders to Ashley Bloomfield and the Ministry of Health informing the public that it was the Pacific community that was at the heart of the Covid cluster in South Auckland, demonstrates the problem of having a government and an overpopulation of social
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, a recent opening line in the New Zealand Herald by its Science reporter, Jamie Morton. Plainly Jamie doesn’t read the foreign press. All year New Zealand has been a laughing stock in the British media over its closed off society and vaccine
After several months’ development the native myBFD app is now approved and live on the Apple App Store. The app for Android devices is already available on Google Play. The development of this app for members has been a long time coming and now turns myBFD into a fully-fledged
