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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 photo? Yesterday’s photo was of Napier taken from State Highway 2. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a window with preferably part of the

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Buy Your Dog a BFD Membership

I was looking at the BFD memberships today when I noticed that one customer name for a membership was My Cat James. We here at The BFD are all for diversity of thought of course but I also think that it is very important that our members are also as

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Review of Ankle Bracelets Needed

Review of Ankle Bracelets Needed

Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson ACT has today renewed our calls for a review of who is eligible for ankle bracelets after an 18-year-old received nine months home detention for the rapes of four teenagers. As part of our Real Change: Law and Order paper released last month,

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Motels Are Not Homes

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Labour Government has now spent over $1.2bn on housing people in motels and emergency facilities. This

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Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?

Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD using the share

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Wake up New Zealand!

Wake up New Zealand!

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Informed Consent is especially topical at the moment with the inquest into the death of a young man from vaccine-induced myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle).  What was known and when, about the ability of the Pfizer covid

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Free Taste of an Insight Politics article by Nathan Smith
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Free Taste of an Insight Politics article by Nathan Smith

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Nathan Smith. A Modern Day Magic Trick Language often tricks the brain into believing things it shouldn’t. That’

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

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2% Of New Zealanders Are Really Maori
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2% Of New Zealanders Are Really Maori

Information Opinion Are Maori really that disadvantaged in New Zealand? Hello, it’s All things Political with John Porter on Bay FM. You don’t have to search very hard to find plenty of articles on the net that will quite plainly quote stats saying Maori are very disadvantaged. Here

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They Are Just Taking the Mickey Now

They Are Just Taking the Mickey Now

Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. In response to the smoke and mirrors ‘Youth Crime Announcement’ from the government, the Act Party has said that these youths need to be on electronic monitoring. Firstly there is nothing new about what Labour have announced – it just ‘expands’ the same old stuff they

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Erase the Ads!

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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‘Critical to a Free Society’

‘Critical to a Free Society’

Like him or loathe him, Winston Peters has hit precisely the right note when discussing the failure of the mainstream media with Sean Plunket on The Platform.  He rightly says, “I’m sorry to say that because in the end whether you like journalists or not, a free media, an

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