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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 a stormy morning at Westshore, Napier. Looking towards Tangoio/Waipatiki. Three ships are in the bay waiting to berth in

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Cindy’s Kindy

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An Epidemic of Epidemiologists

An Epidemic of Epidemiologists

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The Disgraceful Royal Society

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s outrageous taxpayers should fund the New Zealand branch of the Royal Society. Have a look at its website and in particular the 41 staff photos. They share a common factor namely they’re all bloody ugly, although one described as a media advisor,

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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A Cult That Demands Compliance

A Cult That Demands Compliance

You know you’re truly a Mott The Hoople fan when you think Brain Capers was their best album. Which I do. And it is. An obscure album which flopped spectacularly – it sold about 7 copies worldwide when first released in November 1971 – and yet became compulsory listening for several

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Ardern Is Treating the Public like Mushrooms

Ardern Is Treating the Public like Mushrooms

Co-authored: Guy Hatchard Ph.D. Narayani Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa.

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What Will Happen if Independent Media Dies?

Can you imagine a New Zealand in which independent media is gone and all that remains is a small group of large media organisations muzzled by funding from the government? It’s not some faraway dystopia. It is already happening. With the rapid corporate consolidation of traditional news outlets and

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NZ the Way We Used to Be

NZ the Way We Used to Be

My son has recently taken up a job in Paris. Before he went, I encouraged him to brush up on his school French, which he had studied for four years. He duly found an online course, worked on it for a while and started to feel a bit more confident

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The Biggest Climate Threat to NZ
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The Biggest Climate Threat to NZ

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Climate change represents a major

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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When Andrea Vance Got Things Wrong

Andrea Vance, the former News of the World reporter, has written a book purported to be from the point of view of insiders in the National Party. The problem is that almost all of her claims are from anonymous cowards too gutless to own their spiteful and patently false recollections.

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It Is a Stark Choice between Success and Failure

Alwyn Poole mthobson.school.nz If Phil Twyford, David Clark and Poto Williams had to resign for failures in Housing, Health and Policing then there are many more reasons for Chris Hipkins to hand in the Education portfolio. Clearly, the massive failure of the polytechnic centralisation is reason enough, based

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