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The BFD‘s Affiliate Programme is just fantastic and its potential is unlimited. To take it to the next level we need organisations with large e-mail lists to promote The BFD using a simple affiliate link in their e-mails out to their readers. What they will gain is

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If you are a regular reader of The BFD the easiest way to get your daily fix is to sign up to our FREE daily newsletter called the Daily Digest. It contains all the day’s articles complete with a photo and the first paragraph of each article so that

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Three Great Reasons to become a Member of the BFD

A Thank you gift. You read The BFD every day and really appreciate a community where you can express your point of view in a respectful and polite environment. A membership is a thank you gift to The BFD for providing the community that you love so much. Speaking of

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The BFD can help. we have done all the hard work and have already built a huge audience but what we are always looking for more of is quality NZ content. We want to help motivated,  professionally-minded writers who are already writing quality content for their own blog site’

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Love and Marriage, the Two Used to Go Together

Family First NZ Family First NZ is warning that the declining marriage and fertility rates are setting up a ‘perfect storm’ for negative social consequences in New Zealand. According to statistics just released, the general marriage rate dropped to a record low in 2021 of only 7.7 couples per

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

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 John Black. Time to Be the National Party One of a few treasured photographs from my undistinguished university career

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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 view was of the Countdown car park Kelvin Grove Palmerston North. Clearly, a biohazard that everyone needs to be fearful of. Please put

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Why Labour Won’t Introduce a Radical Wealth Tax

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Warning Long read. 1630 words. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been perceived as “softening her line on wealth taxes” – and therefore being open to

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And – Technically – Pigs Can Fly
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And – Technically – Pigs Can Fly

Capitalist Information Opinion In the heyday of the New York Cosa Nostra (or “Mafia”), which began around 1931 and lasted for 30 years or so, a very odd situation sprang up. [What is known as] the Gambino crime family had as its head a man called Vincent Mangano. From what

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Tova Puts Words in Matt King’s mouth

Matt King I was on the radio Tuesday morning and anyone who thinks Trevor Mallard and this Government have acted fairly and done everything consistently when he ordered the trespass order against me (more than two months later, and when I never did anything wrong), has forgotten what true democracy

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Do you want more than just ad-free viewing? Upgrade your Basic Membership to Bronze to access: * Our puzzles * Our cartoons * Our private platform MyBFD Do you want access to the above content as well as Insight articles? Upgrade your Bronze Membership to Silver. You can easily upgrade between subscription

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My Faith in Common Sense

My Faith in Common Sense

Capitalist Information Opinion Like many folks, I have been following the news reports surrounding the gerrymander proposal for local body elections in Rotorua which even the Attorney General cannot pretend is justified. One presumes the intention is for a socialist local body power grab in perpetuity? Perhaps they think that

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They Are Changing Our Constitution Without Our Consent
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They Are Changing Our Constitution Without Our Consent

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002 and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Warning Long read. 1539 words. Many people seem to think that New Zealand doesn’t have a constitution. And certainly, we are one of a very small number

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