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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
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People With Dementia Are Still People
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 As I approach my 70th birthday, it’s an unbelievable privilege to have a living parent. My old Mum (born
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 Standard Railcar RM31 “Tokomaru”, built at Hutt Railway workshops in 1938/1939, departing New Plymouth foreshore
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Satirical Image of the Day
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The Truth of Our History Needs to Be Told
Caleb Anderson First published on NZCPR In the eighteenth century, the idea took root among the thoughtful classes of the “noble savage”. Genevan Philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau was prominent in painting a picture of indigenous societies as inherently peaceful and equal. Many of the eighteenth-century European explorers set sail with these
TODAY: Hastings Town Clock Rally in Solidarity With Israel & the Hostages Four Months On
HASTINGS TOWN CLOCK RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL & THE HOSTAGES FOUR MONTHS ON A Rally will be held today in the centre of Hastings City on Wednesday at 7:30 PM at the Hastings Town Clock. It is a rally of solidarity with Israel as it marks the completion
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Tech Talk: Meta Values Your Data
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Sprinkling Crumbs of Doubt …
voicesforfreedom.co.nz People often ask us for tips to speak more effectively with others on controversial, tricky, or sensitive topics. We certainly don’t have all the answers, but over the past few years, we have noticed a few things that appear to work. Read on to discover some
Too Good to Be True?
Consider the following, dear reader; you’re engaged to a very rich yet perverse man; you’re desperately unhappy and you’re sailing on an ocean liner. Along comes a young fellow who befriends you. He teases the richest man in America, charms numerous other super rich people, and gets
This Terrible Trend Needs to Be Turned
When did you last read a headline in MSM about more children being raised on welfare? Yet latest Ministry of Social Development benefit statistics (1) show at the end of 2023 the number reached a new high of 222,500. I predicted this would happen when Jacinda Ardern became Prime
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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Dear Santa Politicians’ letters to Santa Dear Santa, After my return to parliament, the coalition agreement and the fun I’m having with journalists you’d think all my Christmases had
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NZ Herald and Their Waitangi Day Joke
One of my favourite truisms in politics is “explaining is losing”. Yet that is exactly what the NZ Herald did yesterday with a Waitangi Day article explaining to us all why it is that they are impartial, honest and independent. Yes, they really went there. Explaining is losing. If you