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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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If you want to update your credit card details click here. **To select Stripe as your payment platform select credit/debit card To upgrade or change your membership click here. You can easily upgrade between membership levels at any time by visiting your account page. When upgrading your membership, it

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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz
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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz

Test your trivia knowledge – Select from seven subject categories. General knowledge, Dictionary, Entertainment, History, Food & Drink, Geography, Science & Nature. To Enjoy Our Other Puzzles Become a Bronze Member

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Mask of the Day

Yesterday Dr. Andy had a supercool picture showing us why wearing masks is awesome! Dr. Ash tells us about his Tardis mask and how masks not only protect us from Covid-19 but from all kinds of other nasty things as well! Yaaay! Science rocks! !function(r,u,m,b,

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 5 3 For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey,    and her mouth is smoother than oil. 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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The BFD Nightcap

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz

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They Weren’t Elected It Is Not Democracy
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They Weren’t Elected It Is Not Democracy

New Zealand First Media “At a time when many Maori, like many other Kiwis, suffer from a crisis in housing, health, first world education, and decent wages, Labour is busy dismantling New Zealand’s democracy,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “A dangerous precedent has been

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Was it those who changed the road name who spelt it incorrectly, or RNZ? My money is on RNZ. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or

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Treat Yourself to a Silver Membership
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Treat Yourself to a Silver Membership

You don’t know what you are missing out on. Below is what a Silver level membership will give you. * Access to Insight Politics articles as well as ad-free viewing of the entire site. * Access to SonovaMin and BoomSlang’s fantastic cartoons: Access to our puzzles, Codecracker, Sudoku and

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Volunteer Writers Wanted

The BFD is seeking motivated, concise, reliable, and professionally-minded writers. Ideally, we prefer articles of 400-600 words in length. If you feel that the subject requires a longer post please keep it under 1000 words, (ideally under 800). Local news stories are as welcome as anything to do

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Shallow Thinking
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Shallow Thinking

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent Listener feature article dealt with the attempts to create imitation meat with meaty flavours but composed entirely of vegetables. Mentioned a few times re the advantages which would accrue (global warming, greater productivity etc) was “ending animal exploitation.” That’s shallow thinking. The

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A Free Taste: An Article by Chris Trotter
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A Free Taste: An Article by Chris Trotter

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 Chris Trotter We Are All Maori – With a Small ‘M’ something very strange has happened on the left of

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich

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View from Your Window
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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 the old Whangape church and graveyard taken from the western side of Whangape harbour, Herikino Far North. The area is

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