If apartheid wasn’t here before it’s definitely here now. First, let’s elucidate on the real meaning of the word apartheid. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Languages it means historically (in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Apartheid is
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984–1990 governments. bassettbrashandhide.com How can it be that everything this Labour government touches crumbles? Chris Hipkins and his team score zero
DemocracyNZ arguably just lost its best people with the resignation of five candidates: Dr Matt Shelton, Kirsten Murfitt, Lee Smith and Bill Dyet, after the board fired Waikato farmer Steve Cranston, who was also the party’s spokesman on climate change. Cranston says terribly sensible things like this: The National
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Competition in all things is wonderful, producing as it does, a superior outcome. That said, when it comes to our newspapers there’s no doubt the NZ Herald is generally superior to Wellington’s Post (formerly the Dominion-Post) owned by Stuff. But last weekend Stuff
We are very pleased to announce a new service exclusively for our members. The BFD in partnership with GCo Fuels has created a discounted fuel option. In these tough financial times anything that can save you precious dollars is something to be celebrated. We’ve worked hard to secure this
The minister who described the protest at Parliament in Wellington as “a river of filth” was yesterday found up Shit Creek without a paddle. The Prime Minister has had to effectively sack Michael Wood for being a dishonest, lying little weasel. Chris Hipkins let him resign rather than be formally
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Michael Wood is Face of The Day after being effectively sacked for lying to the Prime Minister and failing to disclosed other conflicts of interest. Michael Wood has quit as a Cabinet minister after it emerged he had more shareholding interests in areas that clashed with his portfolios. Prime Minister
Proverbs 22 8 Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster, and their reign of terror will come to an end. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.
Some of the most riveting passages in William L Shirer’s classic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, are his eye-witness accounts of key events. One of the most extraordinary is his on-the-scene account of the Anschluss as it played out on the streets
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Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First Last year the Australian-owned banks operating in New Zealand had profits of $7.15 billion, this year it will be on track to be even more excessive because of the interest rates going up. An announcement from Labour to ‘ask the Commerce
There is one priority this election: To get this government out. They deserve a boot up the posterior and the last thing we need is three more years of their incompetence and divisive racist policies. We cannot afford this election to be a close-run thing. Those of us on
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Maybe we’ve all got scandal fatigue. This is the best explanation for why there’s not
