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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 view was from the Mercure Hotel, upper Queen St, Auckland. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Why Did It Take Her 4 Years to See the Light?

Why Did It Take Her 4 Years to See the Light?

Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. NEWZEALANDDOC Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. I read with mild interest in Dr. Peter McCullough’s substack article

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Tougher Love

Chris Trotter democracyproject.substack.com THE INTENSIFYING POLITICAL CONTROVERSY over the Coalition Government’s policy on gangs promises to be one of those sheep-from-goats moments. While the Left will veer instinctively towards the sociological, the Right will opt to (paraphrasing one of the best lines from Pulp Fiction) “get medieval”

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Is Stuff Stuffed?

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Reading Stuff’s principal newspaper, Wellington’s The Post, I now treat as a daily entertainment for its blunders. Worldwide, newspapers are going over like ninepins, sustained only because they’re a life-long habit by older generations. Most people under 35 have never as much held

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The Consequences of NZ’s COVID Mandates

The Consequences of NZ’s COVID Mandates

Jan Dewar Head of Nursing Denise Wilson Associate Dean Maori Advancement | Professor Maori Health Gail Pacheco Professor of Economics, Director of the NZ Work Research Institute Lisa Meehan Deputy Director, NZ Work Research Institute Auckland University of Technology During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy was being made in

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Death Spiral or Flat Spin?

Death Spiral or Flat Spin?

Political journalists and commentators are often prone to examples of exaggeration. Tova O’Brien is one of the worst, but it is understandable when you work for a niche publication that is so close to failing that its staff resort to calamitous exaggerated headlines to attract readers to their dross.

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Parallel Assessment Means New Medicines Assessed Sooner

Hon David Seymour Associate Minister of Health Pharmac is changing its process so it can assess a funding application at the same time Medsafe is assessing the application for regulatory approval. This means that medicines will be able to be considered for funding sooner in New Zealand. Access to medicines

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 29 3 The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,    but if he hangs around with prostitutes, his wealth is wasted. 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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