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Tiwai Point Promise Is Only Postponing the Inevitable

Tiwai Point Promise Is Only Postponing the Inevitable

Dangling the carrot of a selective travel bubble with at least some parts of Australia might be seen as a sign of desperation from Jacinda Ardern, ahead of the October election. The proposed timing – “before Christmas” – is clearly designed to deliver maximum hope while delaying until after the election the

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It’s OK When the Left Do It

It’s OK When the Left Do It

When Donald Trump was accused of denigrating members of the Armed Forces recently, the legacy media jumped all over themselves to get a dig in. ‘Trump is evil’, ‘he secretly hates the military’, were the sorts of comments being bandied about. It didn’t matter that the whole thing seems

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WANTED: Letters to the Editor

WANTED: Letters to the Editor

The BFD needs you to send in Letters to the Editor Letters to the editor are often the most read section of the dead tree media and online new media like The BFD is no exception to that rule. We know many of you have opinions on the latest news

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Draining the Swamp
Law

Draining the Swamp

It is hard to know what to believe anymore. So many lies are told in the MSM, and government staff are the main source of misinformation while blaming “conspiracy theorists” for questioning the official line. The woke left tries to shut down any debate, while big tech is censoring free

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The Election

The Election

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com To date, thanks to the government and media’s disproportionate obsession with the corona virus, the normal election fervour has been missing in action. In these circumstances the historically unprecedented lop-sided polling becomes explicable. But with less than a month to go, I don’

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A FREE Taste of Insight: Politics Podcast Episode 22

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The Long and Windy Road
NZ

The Long and Windy Road

Pragmatic people they were, New Zealanders in the 1950’s. Concerned less with the consequences of bulldozing a sizeable hill into the adjacent bay to create a longer runway for the capital city’s airport than the consequences of not doing it, the Ministry of Works just went ahead carried

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The Great Global Reset

The Great Global Reset

Chris Sellars Prior to the last election with a view to writing an article I emailed the major political parties and a few not so major ones asking where they stood on UN Agenda 21. New Zealand has been a signatory to this since its implementation in 1992. Yet like

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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. (function(d,s,id,u){ if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var js, sjs = d.

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Rents Go Through the Roof

Rents Go Through the Roof

Try as the government likes, they just can’t keep a good landlord down. That is because there are so few of them these days: they are a rapidly dying breed, exiting the market in droves and taking their tax free capital gains with them. But those that remain in

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The Greens Have No Idea How the Drug World Works

The Greens Have No Idea How the Drug World Works

Mr Colourful A clickbait headline on Newshub got me watching Chloe Swarbrick talking about her cannabis referendum with the woke wombles on The Project. I suffered through it so you kind souls don’t have to ruin your days by being subjected to it. Chloe Swarbrick proves either A: politics’

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Daily News Roundup – 29 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 29 September 2020

1News Colmar Brunton poll Thomas Coughlan  and Luke Malpass(Stuff): Spectre of Labour-Green coalition National’s worst nightmare Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour needs Greens on latest One News poll (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Do the polls deliver a whisper of hope for National? (paywalled) David Farrar: Latest poll ————— 1News:

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Look at the Trends

Look at the Trends

We’ve had two polls in two days. Both the Reid Research poll and the Colmar Brunton poll (ONCB) are now aligning and if you look at the positions of the two main parties from just a month ago it is clear there is now a trend emerging. For Labour,

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