Everything about politics
C. S. Lewis once wrote that the impulse to worship was ingrained in humanity. To Lewis, this was proof of the existence of God, although it might just as well be argued that this ingrained spirituality is an evolutionary adaptation (there are even some admittedly tenuous suggestions that some of
Warning This series does not contain actual tweets from President Trump. All tweets are fictional and were created for the purpose of humour.
The BFD staff had a conversation over the watercooler yesterday after listening to the below interview with Simon Bridges. During the conversation, a new nickname for Bridges was born. “Angry Captain Mumblepants” which was then beautifully illustrated for us by BFD photoshopper Luke. The general consensus was that Captain Mumblepants
Articles from a number of female contributors provided some interesting if not eyebrow-raising reading in last weekend’s newspaper. Three were writing, not surprisingly, about our Dear Leader. While recognising the complete mess she has got herself into, they all managed to put a positive spin on her so–
Warning This series does not contain actual tweets from President Trump. All tweets are fictional and were created for the purpose of humour.
The government has overhauled its temporary migrant worker visa scheme. If you cast your mind back 2 years, Labour and NZ First both campaigned on significantly reducing immigration, from around 70,000 migrants a year down to about 30,000. NZ First actually went further and wanted to reduce immigration
Ardern said on Tuesday that she was not marching against Trump but marching for woman’s rights. We will let you decide. ex-JAFA has provided her with some plausible deniability…
Questions to Ministers Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all of his statements, policies, and actions? KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? Hon Dr NICK SMITH to the Minister for Maori Crown
I was reading through Hansard yesterday and I noted Simon Bridges and the PM getting snippy with each other during Oral questions and it occurred to me that it might be fun to start a (possibly) regular series called Snip Bits where I reproduce only the snippy bits of interactions
Warning This series does not contain actual tweets from President Trump. All tweets are fictional and were created for the purpose of humour.
This will be a familiar story to The BFD readers: a gutless council caves in to unhinged activists and tries to shut down a speaking event by a visiting public figure. The only differences are that it’s Australia, not New Zealand, and the public figure is an Aboriginal woman.
