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LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments
Michael Reddell croakingcassandra.com Having mentioned yesterday the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Stringency Index, I was playing around with variants of this chart, tracing the responses of various governments through time. On this variant I’ve included the Anglo countries and most of the countries of western Europe. It
PM Jacinda Ardern is very fond of slogans and an unkind person would claim that she is all slogans and no substance. The BFD would like to turn all her slogans into a Bingo card but we need your help. BFD Photoshopper Pixy has made up a few of them
The first thing Simon Bridges should do when Parliament resumes on Tuesday is to propose a vote of no confidence in this disgraceful rabble that calls itself a Government. Things have been building since the start of the lockdown and it all came to a head on Friday with the
The first article on the right was from a press release and it was rewritten within hours. The re-written article is on the left and the original article is on the right. Guest writer Justin Knight wrote an article about this yesterday, “How Free is Our Press Really? You
We cannot retain a Prime Minister who does not act constitutionally if we wish to remain a First World democracy In British Commonwealth countries the rule of law is a long-established principle relating to the way in which the country is governed, dating from Magna Carta in 1215 and
“The more restrictions and prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be.” Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu “Never f**K with another man’s rice bowl” A lesser, unknown Chinese Philosopher When future historians describe what happened to the New Zealand economy in 2020 they will no doubt lay the
Attorney-General David Parker made a speech Friday last week in response to the leaked e-mail to police and the leaked Crown Law advice to the government that revealed how little legal power the police actually had to enforce the lockdown. In it he revealed that the government have
The Speech is very long so I have put in bold the most interesting and pertinent parts of it for readers. *An article responding to the claims made by David Parker in this speech will be published later today. Parker’s Facebook Speech appears designed to provide flannel in response
I was reading the article by WH on Saturday about the modelling used around the world and the flaws of one particular model. That model is the one by Neil Ferguson, the world’s most wrong ‘scientist’. WH pointed out how badly flawed the model was, and I’ve also
A National Geographic article “New Zealand has ‘effectively eliminated’ coronavirus” available online 1 May had some lefties in a bit of a tizzy on twitcom. Rest assured it was a puff-piece lauding our lady leader, but what upset the cry-babies was an excellent piece of research from the
Ferris Bueller Arctic Inuit Indians, Australian Aborigines and our Prime Minister seem to have an unlikely connection but they are closer than you think. All three share one common factor, a connection so specialised as to be in a very small global club. The connection? They are all masters of
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I spent a considerable amount of time prior to writing this article searching for suitable words to describe the Prime Minister. A “piece of work” seemed the most applicable. The definition of a piece of work is a very unkind or unpleasant person, but like many bullies, not without charm.
