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Okay, I’ll Bite, Minneapolis Will Disband Its Police, Then What?
Minneapolis has been brewing this storm-in-a-teacup story of racist police long before George Floyd was murdered. Nine of the eleven councillors were primed and ready to outvote Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, who would not commit to abolishing the police at a demonstration last Saturday where protesters
A Cabinet of Radishes
David Theobald Monday June 8th was the start of another week in the increasingly bizarre parallel universe in which I find myself living. A universe where all the logic and pragmatism that I was happy to have run the bits of the world I move in for nearly three score
NZ Run by a PR Agency
David Seymour Facebook The new ‘Unite For Recovery’ ad campaign shows New Zealand is being run by a PR agency masquerading as a government. Overnight, the ‘Unite Against Covid-19’ campaign became ‘Unite For Recovery’. With an election on the horizon, Labour will keep the country on a war footing
Modern Policing II
Yesterday I wrote in The BFD about the impossibility of policing the multicultural chasm opened up by the Black Lives Matter movement. It was subsequently announced that the Minneapolis City Council intends to disband the Minneapolis Police Department altogether, and hand policing over to ‘community groups’. Nine of the 13
A Contrived Coincidence or a Close Call?
So the last person with coronavirus recovered just in time for the Prime Minister’s announcement that we can move to level one but it was a close call. Or was it? The declaration of a full recovery was made with two hours to spare. Spare a thought for the
Ardern Says the Virus Will Be Back but Takes Credit for Eliminating It!
On the AM show this week Garner asked Jacinda Ardern how she felt about the last 75 days (it feels sooo much longer to me). Ardern was in her usual toothy form, saying it was “a massive team effort”. Give yourself a round of applause dear reader, she means you,
Here’s How the Media Twisted Trump’s Words about George Floyd
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New Zealand: A Political Poem
Kerry Grant I see a nation of people, who have faltered and lost their wayWhose forefather's died for their freedom, so other's could give it away?A people who put their differences aside, while making the world a better placeNow lost through social dissension, our history
Letter from the North: 9 June
This has been a difficult comment to write, not because of writer’s block but because of the difficulty of deciding what to leave out. So much is happening in the UK that I will try and give a view on the undercurrents rather than what has been directly reported
Even Shaun King Can See It
If you’ve got half a brain and even the faintest inkling of how America’s federal system of government works, you may have been scratching your head, wondering what on earth the death of George Floyd has to do with President Trump. Or, indeed, any of the other palaver
The Antifa-ISIS Connection
Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned. The most obvious thing about the wave of riots sweeping America for the past few days is just how organised they are. This is no more a “spontaneous uprising” than the Reichstag fire was a random act of terror. Which is
Postcard from Canada: 9 June
Geoffrey The Prime Minister of The United Kingdom tested positive for the China Virus. The Prime Minister of Canada did too. The Prime Minister of The United Kingdom went into isolation, and then into the hospital, and is now out and working. The Prime Minister of Canada went into isolation
To the Surprise of No One – It’s Hooton Time
As predicted by… well, pretty much everyone, Matthew Hooton has started work in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition. As befits a man known as the Svengali of Right-Wing Politics, he starts his tenure with a statement that is not quite a lie but is deliberately disingenuous.