Despite their best efforts, missionaries to this beautiful group of islands didn’t manage to convince locals they encountered to end several of their more unpleasant cultural practices for many, many years. One of those was the widespread tangihanga (or mourning) custom among women to slash their face and breast
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Our media just do not like Christopher Luxon. But of all the issues they could and should be attacking him
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As expected, a woke judge has given the granny basher a slap on the wrist with a well-soaked paper serviette, effectively signalling that if you are an effed-in-the-head trans activist you can assault people for daring to have a differing opinion from you. A man who
Brian Tamaki “For a new Prime Minister who campaigned on cutting costs, PM Chris Luxon should have started by cutting Jacinda and her Christchurch Call costs” boldly states Brian Tamaki, the founder and leader of The Freedoms & Rights Coalition (TFRC). TFRC held well-supported protests in Auckland, Wellington and
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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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
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
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
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:
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
