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Thoughts from a Funeral Director

A BFD reader recently received an email from their child who works in a funeral home in the UK. The email covers a number of things, but below are the most pertinent parts that I think will be of interest. As of now, we are still at the highest level

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Falling Out of Love with Jacinda Ardern

March 3rd 2021 The north has been having a love fest over Jacinda Ardern for more than 3 years now. She has become the darling of the left, the woke and the virtue signallers. She was exposed to Tony Blair and his philosophy (look back and see what damage that

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One Fix, 220,000 Fails

FEBRUARY 26th 2021 Why is it that when the UK does something well, it really is world-class and when it reverts to type it is a morass of bumbling, fluffing around obfuscation and mediocrity? The roll out of the vaccination programme in England has been a major success, albeit with

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Don’t Be Offensive in Britain

Don’t Be Offensive in Britain

Salman Rushdie famously said that without the freedom to offend, free speech doesn’t exist. If the Plod are to be believed, then there is indeed no freedom of speech in Britain any more. Merseyside Police has apologised for claiming “being offensive is an offence” as part of a campaign

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Paying for Journalism

Paying for Journalism

Sir John Redwood MP johnredwoodsdiary.com John Redwood won a free place at  Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of  All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non-executive chairman of

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A Genuine Islamo-Nazi

A Genuine Islamo-Nazi

“Islamonazi” is often a favoured pejorative, on the right especially, for jihadist Muslims. Anti-Islam activists argue that the violent intolerance of Muslim extremists is little different to that of the Nazis or Fascists. It’s not just supposedly “Islamophobic” righties, either: the late Christopher Hitchens was assaulted in Beirut after

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Making Cars Green Means Closing Engine Plants

Sir John Redwood MP johnredwoodsdiary.com John Redwood won a free place at  Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of  All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non-executive chairman of

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Move over Bill Cosby. Here Come the COVID Criminals

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and

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Well, That’s a Turn Off!

Well, That’s a Turn Off!

Many commenters here on The BFD have raised valid questions following the release of the recent Climate Change Commission report. This report suggests that the way forward for New Zealand is for everyone to switch to electric vehicles and for all gas cooking, gas water heating and gas home heating

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UK Copies Hotel Quarantine – What Could Go Wrong?

UK Copies Hotel Quarantine – What Could Go Wrong?

It was not Albert Einstein, alas, but some (Alchoholics) Anonymous wit who coined the phrase, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. Regardless of its provenance, we see the truth of the adage borne out nearly every day. Especially in the era of

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Letter from the North

8th February 2021 Well, I received the command and turned up for my COVID-19 vaccination yesterday. On arrival, marshals checked my credentials and my appointment time and directed me to the car park. I joined the queue, and everyone was socially distancing. So far so good. Unfortunately, we were queuing

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Green Zealots Want Your Granny to Die

Green Zealots Want Your Granny to Die

As I’ve written several times, our collective approach to the Chinese virus might be called the “Moloch Option”: sacrificing the health, wellbeing and, in the form of increased suicides, the very lives of the young, in order to save the elderly most at risk from the Wuhan plague. The

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Letter from the North

EU Miracle Workers In an unprecedented act of political stupidity, the EU Commission managed to produce something that has never before been achieved. In one swift act they united the Irish Government, the DUP and Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland and the UK government. Faced with a shortfall in the

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