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This week’s roasting is for Julie Anne Genter and her secret letter. https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/hooton-on-genter/ Blockhead was puzzled by the story: Why didn’t Twyford tell Genter to get lost, that the proposal was unacceptable etc. As the senior minister where was his
ACT party press release: Shane Jones is paying almost $1 million to get each ‘neph’ off the couch through his Provincial Growth Fund”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. On Newshub Nation Saturday morning, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones said his slush fund had created well over 1000 jobs
Can you imagine a Stuff headline that reads: The brown, female, youthful face of local government What about: The black, male, senior face of local government How about this real headline? Why on earth did anyone think that it was okay to critique councils not by their effectiveness or combined
By George When Ardern scarpered to Paris with the intention of hauling social media sites over the coals, little did they know that New Zealand, under Arden’s watch, only wanted to cut out the middleman. Corrections, it appears, has its own method of spreading the gospel according to Brenton
Tracey Martin agrees with Maori who blame Oranga Tamariki for the appalling over-representation of Maori in our child abuse statistics. “Minister for Children Tracey Martin has delivered a blistering verdict on New Zealand’s failure to care for its most vulnerable children, saying “the system has failed”.” Stuff She
Jacinda sees herself as a climate warrior. Let’s face it… climate change is her generation’s ‘nuclear moment’, even though she does not seem to understand that there have been no nuclear explosions (Thank God) since 1945, other than tests, and they have mostly been condemned. The North Koreans
The singer of the band the 1975 defied Dubai’s anti-LGBT laws during a concert on Wednesday by venturing into the crowd and kissing a male fan on the lips. Video footage taken by fans and posted on Twitter showed Matt Healy telling gay fans that he loved them
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The clown-show that is the Pacific Islands Forum came to a fitting conclusion yesterday, with a rogues’ gallery of banana republics lining up with their hands out. But, in their greed for foreign handouts, Pacific nations seem dangerously blind to the wolf that they’re inviting into their complacent
With the US economy booming it’s hard to imagine a recession but because other markets are not faring anywhere nearly as well, adverse speculation could impact the US. Donald Trump has once again lashed out at the media, but this time to blame reporters for trying to tank the
If Jacinda Ardern thought Scott Morrison was going to be intimidated by her and her little friends’ mean-girl bullying act at the Pacific Islands Forum, she was sorely disappointed. In contrast to Ardern’s constant posturing for applause from the globalist peanut gallery at the UN, Morrison reminded her
National party press release: Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has created a culture of leniency in our prison system which puts prisoners ahead of victims and public safety. New Zealanders confidence in Corrections will rightly be eroding after revelations that dangerous prisoners with extreme views have been able to send inflammatory
There have been many articles written this week about whether or not the Christchurch terrorist should be allowed to write letters. Many liberals who supported abolishing the death penalty and supported the homosexual law reform bill have reacted emotionally to this issue and are not interested in upholding the rights
What is it about our media that, with one or two exceptions, they seem orgasmically wired to our prime minister. The endless items of witless trivia that impregnate the pages of today’s newspapers and magazines belie the true identity of the woman. It’s beyond time that the media
There has been a lot of talk about Christopher Luxon’s political career. Certainly, he has done nothing to dampen the excitement about him being National’s answer to the Holy Grail. Now that Paula Bennett has decided not to contest her electorate seat at the next election, speculation is
