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Some leaks from inside NZ First have hit the headlines, and coupled with a recent poll of NZ First supporters they suggest that many members of NZ First were unhappy with the decision to go with Labour: A raft of internal NZ First documents have been leaked to the media
Kelvin Davis dodged a bullet in The BFD series on Labour Fails – A Surfeit of Ministerial Misadventure due to lack of space, but this time he gets a post all to himself, and he has earned it. This week the British High Commissioner, Laura Clarke, delivered an apology on behalf
Today’s face of the day is NZ’s very own Rain Man. He thinks he can control the weather and pay native species to not go extinct.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg may “want to meet some disadvantaged kids from Somalia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh or even outback Australia before she talks about stolen childhoods,” according to Sky News host Chris Kenny. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.
Dear Editor I am going through a pessimistic stage over the future of New Zealand. I can see Western civilisation being defunct in about 20 years and climate change has nothing to do with it. The problem as I see it is a combination of immigration, declining European birth rate,
By David Theobald Right! Starting the long journey home and my trip to the UK is done and dusted. Currently in the Cathay Lounge at Heathrow from where I will post this. The main point of the trip was to visit friends, many of whom I have known for fifty
The creepy grooming campaign by transgender activists gets sleazier and more dangerous by the day. We’ve had the sinister “Safe Schools” and “Mates and Dates” indoctrination programs, which subject children from their earliest school years to a relentless schedule of weirdly sexualised Marxist absurdities, including “role-playing” and lessons
Universities are wastelands of left-wing groupthink populated with academics who willingly whore themselves to authoritarian regimes in Beijing and Riyadh, while stomping on free speech and denigrating the West. Worse, they’re also the playground of taxpayer-funded pen-pushers who neither teach nor research. What you see are
By William Felt I usually finish in the office at 6.30; in time to catch the sports news at 6.40 on TV. This is especially important during the All Black season and more so during a “World Cup”. Seeing what our team is up to in the hours
Dear Editor, Following on from my earlier letter, the Press referred to the three “leading candidates” (Minto, Dalziel and Park) as “Mayoral hopefuls”. But that has now gone and it is back to “leading candidates”. And no independent poll has been published to support this ongoing contention. Since then there
By Owen Jennings Someone called James Renwick (described as a “climate scientist”), managed to get himself on the front page of Granny Herald recently. I’m not sure what a “climate scientist” is. We never used to have such a term – we had geologists, physicists, biologists, chemists, etc. I think
I don’t know if Winston Peters reads The BFD but his reported comments in a newspaper yesterday compliment yesterday’s article Gisborne History the Re-write beautifully. Winston has said what so many of us were thinking when we heard that the British High Commissioner was going to apologise
RATINGS GUIDE: $ to $$$$$ with $ being a leftist trougher and $$$$$ being small government dynamo For some, however, a clown is more appropriate. More than one may be awarded. Rodney Local Board (Warkworth Subdivision) As of October 3, voter turnout is 23% down on 2016 which is an improvement on October 2.
Fifty lucky New Zealanders were invited to Beijing to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the brutal, murderous, evil and oppressive reign of the Communist Party of China. Among those invited was none other than intelligence officer-turned-politician Jian Yang, who traded a long career as an intelligence officer in
I guess we really shouldn’t be surprised. Colin Craig is going to continue his legal harassment of Rachel MacGregor using the courts to continue his wonky jihad to attempt to clear his name: Former Conservative Party leader Colin Craig will appeal a High Court decision that ruled he sexually
