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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 5 23 He will die for lack of self-control;    he will be lost because of his great foolishness. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The BFD Nightcap
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The BFD Nightcap

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Wouldn’t want to be thee. Where does the ball sit? If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was of Waiuku, south of Auckland, from an Air New Zealand regional flight heading south. ** We need more photos

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD using the share

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What Lessons Will Be Learnt?
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What Lessons Will Be Learnt?

Tani Newton Some time before the 2023 election, I noticed a cartoon that showed Winston Peters on a surfboard, riding a wave marked “Freedom Movement”. Surely not, thought I. The freedom movement had stalled at two per cent of the population. It was not a demographic significant enough to be

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Our Review of the World’s Largest Study

Our Review of the World’s Largest Study

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com A recent study, Covid-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals, was published in the journal Vaccine and has reached the attention of news outlets in the

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Labour Is a Spent Force?
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Labour Is a Spent Force?

My previous article was headlined Is Labour a Spent Force? The headline for this article asks a similar question with a different emphasis, implying it most probably is, based on its performance in opposition to date. Bryce Edwards, in a recent article on the Democracy Project, gives numerous examples of

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And They Chortle No More

Paul Holmes once said the main quality for being a journalist was ‘to have lived’. By this he meant that you should have been around the block a couple of times, experienced highs and lows in life and struggled at something and come through the other side in one piece:

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No One Cuddles a Corpse Quite like the Media

No One Cuddles a Corpse Quite like the Media

The media are pretty much all cuddling up to the corpse of Newshub. It is unedifying and and as predictable as it is pathetic. There are some exceptions to that, however, and one is Heather du Plessis-Allan. She says it’s dead: let it go. We need to let Newshub

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Delivering the Changes Asked For
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Delivering the Changes Asked For

As we head into the final week of our Coalition Government’s first 100 days, I’d like to update you on an issue raised repeatedly with me in last year’s election campaign: law and order. The previous Government’s soft-on-crime approach left many Kiwis feeling unsafe in their

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 4 13 Take hold of my instructions; don’t let them go.    Guard them, for they are the key to life. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The BFD Nightcap
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The BFD Nightcap

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Sorry, Stuff, not the right content to contend with. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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An Open Letter to David Seymour

I’ve noticed two things recently. The first is you want to get pseudoephedrine back on the shelves and, secondly, your opposition to the previous government’s plans to ban tobacco. This to me demonstrates one thing – that you get that prohibition and the war on drugs has been an

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