Everything about politics
An article on Stuff asks the question, “Do you need to be popular to win an election?” What then follows is political commentary trying to make a case for why National should hold on to an unpopular leader. I cannot help but surmise that they want National to keep him
By David O me miserum. Doom and gloom to start the day yesterday put me in a mood to feel thoroughly miserable. It was pouring with rain and we had just had our backsides handed to us on a plate at Chester-le-Street. They might as well have taken
In the classic 80s comedy, The Young Ones, Rik is a cartoonish mockery of a radical student leftist. Middle-class, ignorant and always looking for something to be offended about, Rik’s defining trait is his almost Tourette’s-like passion for calling people “fascists” and “Nazis”. Bank tellers, doormen,
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Thirty years ago last month, paratroopers and tanks rolled out in Beijing to bloodily crush China’s burgeoning democracy movement. For three decades afterwards, too many Western elites have systematically deluded themselves that the Chinese Communists have somehow benevolently “reformed”. However comforting a lie might be, a lie it remains.
President Trump and London Mayor Sadiq Khan are very different. One is able to change history by working with a dictator from North Korea in order to facilitate an end to the war between North and South Korea and the other thinks that because he disagrees with a democratically elected
Megan Woods has been tasked with burying Kiwibuild completely. Her job is to comprehensively destroy the programme so that its name is never mentioned ever again. This article by Shane Te Pou tells us where the policy on housing is likely to head. Megan Woods has a chance to move
By Owen Jennings Alarm bells are sounding. Not loudly, yet, but persistently and with growing clangour. In another apt analogy, the storm clouds are gathering and the first peals of thunder can be heard. Our economy is heading toward danger and those in charge are oblivious to the problem but,
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Government is keen to declare a climate-change emergency but work needs to be done to get more MPs onboard. “I don’t see why there should be any reasons why members of Parliament wouldn’t want to demonstrate that this is a matter
ACT party “Jacinda Ardern’s vaunted Wellbeing Budget will improve the fortunes of the world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, but taxpayers will lose out”, ACT Leader David Seymour says. “New Zealanders could end up subsidising Amazon by around $375 million through the Screen Production Grant for its Lord of
Way back in August last year, I wrote a post on the effects being seen on the rental markets down my way, due to the openly landlord-hostile policies of our Minority Labour government and their enablers. We here at the BFD have long been suggesting that rental property owners
National MP Alfred Ngaro says Israel Folau should have the freedom to express his religious beliefs. […] “Anyone should have the freedom to express their view, unless that view incites violence of harm to other people.” […] When asked if there should be a separation between church and state, Mr Ngaro said,
