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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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Finnish Study Debunks Popular Question

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Unbelievable

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In today’s Post newspaper correspondence Michael Barnett, has come up with a brilliant idea re funding the City Council. Specifically, he suggests imposing taxes on city commercial sites. I’ll chip in my contribution and suggest we call this new tax “rates”. Reading these

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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 taken at the Mercury Bay Aero Club, Whitianga air show. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab

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Satirical Image of the Day

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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Half a century back newspapers were everyone’s principal news source. But in the face of the new digital option with its immediacy, they’ve gone over like ninepins and the handful surviving, knowing the game is up, are all actively trying to build a

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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NZ Elections and Dark Money

Dr Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Elections in the United States are dominated by big money. But what isn’t commonly understood is that most of it is raised and spent, not by the

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Peaceful Gathering on Parliament Steps

Doctors from New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) will be on the Parliament steps on Thursday 29 February at 1 pm, and will speak and hand over a letter demanding that the covid injections be ceased due to the overwhelming danger signals. A spokesperson for NZDSOS, Dr Alison

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Is Labour a Spent Force?

Normally after an electoral drubbing such as the Labour Government received last year one can safely assume that in another two or three election cycles there will be a path back to power. Voters will simply tire of the current lot and therefore there will be an appetite for change.

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There Are 3 Kinds of Lies

lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Question: Do you understand how the child poverty statistics are derived? Clearly some people do not. Last week the latest child poverty statistics were all over the media. But there are a number of misunderstandings that need addressing. Like this one from NewstalkZB’s John MacDonald who

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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Jobs for (Anyone but) the Boys Ah, to be a straight white male before the turn of the millennium. From when such men awoke in the morning to a plate of

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Nashy Gives Labour a Good Kick in the Cods

Nashy Gives Labour a Good Kick in the Cods

Stuart Nash, unencumbered by having to toe the party line is throwing his former colleagues under the bus as Labour and other crim-friendly groups start shouting about the coalition Government honouring yet another promise. Stuart Nash has hit out at his former Labour colleagues over changes to laws targeting gangs

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