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Many years ago, I worked with a young Chinese expat. One day he told me how, in China, he’d been a member of the Young Pioneers, the youth wing of the Chinese Communist Party. Then he came to Australia. Many of the things he’d been told all his
Remember, Victorians, when you weren’t allowed to visit your dying mothers? When you had to watch your grannie’s funeral over Zoom? When you could be arrested for playing golf, going to the beach, or taking your kid for a driving lesson? Well, you can take some comfort that
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org From the time that Donald J Trump announced his serious intention to run for president in 2015 the world watched America’s legacy media slide into the most vehemently mocking hate campaign toward one man that I’ve ever witnessed. It made ‘Bush Derangement Syndrome’ during
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Do the makers of transport decisions on Auckland Council and Auckland Transport live in the real world? It would seem not. These are presumably highly paid individuals who sit at desks all day in a theoretical (make-believe) world rather than a practical (real) world. These people have power and
Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. Information Opinion Health has been hijacked for
Yesterday I quipped on Twitter that Gaurav Sharma’s favourite band was Talking Heads and his favourite song was ‘Burning Down the House’: It got me thinking though, and I was helped by others on Twitter, that there were plenty of Talking Heads songs to describe the predicament the Labour
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Ombudsman should investigate Gaurav Sharma’s claim that Labour MPs are being coached on how to deliberately subvert the Official Information Act. Yesterday, I wrote to Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier to ask that his office investigate Sharma’s claims. Dr Sharma told Newshub that
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Eye Patch Jack pacificnarrations.substack.com After a night out on the town in Tokyo and one too many Black Nikka whiskeys, I awoke early this morning. Like many of my drunken dawns, I found myself mindlessly browsing Twitter because that sometimes is just the easier thing to do rather
August 18th, 2022. My summer hiatus has been interrupted by events in the UK that I find difficult to comment on but cannot ignore. A period of violence saw 6 people murdered in 4 days, with the nadir being reached with the knife murder of an 87-year-old busker
What is it with lockdown-addicted socialists and collapsing hospital systems? It may be cold comfort to BFD readers to know that Jacinda Ardern is not the only leader presiding over a snowballing hospital disaster. Three guesses who’s racing her to the bottom… Doctors have warned patients have been
Eugene Sadler-Smith University of Surrey Eugene Sadler-Smith is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School. His first degree was from the University of Leeds (School of Geography), and His Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (Thesis title ‘Individual differences and the design of instructional materials’, 1988-
The United States has gone from being a beacon on the hill of democracy to a pale imitation of the late-stage Soviet Union or Communist China. Show trials, mass arrests of dissidents, relentless propaganda, the weaponisation of every arm of the state against opponents of the ruling regime. What
As many of you no doubt knew, yesterday was Vietnam Veterans’ Day in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating the heroic defence at the Battle of Long Tan. In Australia, opposition leader Peter Dutton attended a memorial service at his local RSL. Former Nationals leader and current Shadow Minister for Veterans’
