One thing you can’t accuse the Australian or New Zealand governments of is quick thinking. Despite her retrospective claims of “hardernurly” lockdowns in 2020, the timeline shows that Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks before announcing the first Level 4 lockdowns. Not coincidentally, the first lockdowns occurred around the time
Australia, the US and Britain have announced a historic new military alliance – one that explicitly relegates New Zealand to the sidelines. New Zealanders can thank Jacinda Ardern and her Labour predecessors for turning their country into, at best, a strategic irrelevance, at worst, a client state of communist China. It
Chris Sweeney rt.com Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines. Brian Tingley is taking on the state of Washington for the right to continue counselling young people concerned
History, it is said, is written by the victors. But which victors, of which war? The United States lost the Vietnam War militarily, for instance: but the American left emerged victorious on the home front. And they wrote a history which was every bit as false as the Soviets who
Eliora The BFD has published three articles recently after spotting a job advertisement that Jacinda Ardern needed to be filled “at pace“. 1. “The Ministry of Truth Is Hiring” 2. “Government’s Kafkaesque Behaviour Epitomised with New Job in the PMO” 3. “Jacinda Ardern Is Employing 1984-Style ‘Disinformation Officers” The
Dark Jester For some time now, politics has always been divided on partisan lines and specifically can be easily divided based on the political continuum. On the left you had people who believed that the state provided better goods and services and therefore they favoured bigger government and more state
No doubt attracted by the irresistible scent of mountains of government money, renewable energy and climate activism are fields rife with charlatans, troughers, rent-seekers and frauds. From the billions the clueless Obama sunk into boondoggles like Solyndra, to the obvious scam of burning trees and calling it “emissions free”. Most
Plagues and pandemics have consequences far beyond public health. Pandemics can disrupt societies in far-reaching and often devastating ways. While the “silver lining” of the Black Death, for instance, was that it ultimately led to the dismantling of feudalism, during the plague itself social effects were horrific. There was the
Rob Slane theblogmire.com Rob Slane dwells in the Country Formerly Known as Great Britain, now known as The Quagmire. He is married to the very best wife imaginable and so far they have been entrusted with the upbringing of 6 free-range little Slanes. I spent an inordinate amount of
I wish I could stop writing posts reporting what the left are doing to normalise paedophilia today. I will when they stop doing it. Until then, I would be derelict in my journalistic duty – shirking from reporting the truth. Because the truth is that, every day, a significant segment of
