Some time back, I started to write a post for The BFD, grudgingly ceding credit where it was due to the Ardern government for banning Huawei from New Zealand’s 5G network. “That was a wise decision”, I began to write. Huawei is notorious not just for the sort of
The United Nations has not been fit for purpose for a long, long time as it has been taken over by countries who do not have free democracies and who have terrible human rights records. Now the United Nations has gone so far as to use tactics straight out of
It’s been said that you can have mass Muslim immigration, or you can have a liberal, democratic society – but you can’t have both. Of course, such sentiments have to muttered sotto voce. Anything less than starry-eyed swooning and waving of “refugees welcome” banners, as millions of military-age, single
The Chinese Government has decided that anything other than the ‘official’ line on the Coronavirus is “fake news” and anyone spreading such fake news will be ‘invited’ to spend 3 – 7 years in the slammer. I don’t suppose that WeChat has ever held itself out as a champion of
Social media has recently been flooded with giddily laudatory stories claiming that, in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, China built an entire hospital in just seven days. A few curmudgeons pointed out that the first photos were of a hotel complex some 600 miles away, and that the building
We already know that free speech is not a principle that the contemporary left support. It’s also obvious that, for all the self-serving palaver about “your right to know”, the left are implacably hostile to a free press, too. In 2011, the Gillard government in Australia attempted to force
Rob Berg israelinstitute.nz Rob Berg is president of the Zionist Federation of New Zealand. On 29 January 2020, President Trump finally presented his long-awaited ‘Deal of the Century’, his vision to end the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis, a conflict which has been going on in
The left would have us believe that all Arabs are thrilled at the idea of living in a Palestinian state but 250,000 Arab Israelis, at least, do not want to become part of a Palestinian state for the following reasons. 1. They have seen the daily human rights violations
A French atheist teenager online called Islam a “Shit religion” and said that “the Koran is full of hate” and her comments went viral. Can you guess what happened next? A) French Muslims went out of their way to show her how peaceful, loving and tolerant Islam is. B) French
The Daily Mail reports on some funding issues for the Commonwealth Secretariat because of ‘significant weaknesses in its approach to managing procurement’. New Zealand has suspended funding because of poor audit reports: Embattled Commonwealth chief Baroness Scotland’s hopes of keeping her job suffered a blow yesterday after a snub
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Garry Grappo Fair Observer Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan is a far cry from what Palestinians have wanted for decades. But it’s time to be realistic. Following President Donald Trump’s long-awaited unveiling of his “deal of the century” Middle East peace plan on January 28, the
HIDDEN CAMERA: Police interrogated me about my Justin Trudeau book. They didn’t know I videotaped it I wrote a best-selling book about Justin Trudeau in the last election. After the election, I received a letter by registered mail notifying me that I was being investigated for that book. Trudeau’
Luc Ferrandez is a politician from Montreal, Quebec. He was the interim leader of the municipal party Projet Montreal from 2014. From 2009 to 2019 he served as the mayor of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. He is currently a member of the Projet Montreal municipal political party. Projet Montreal
