Then and Now is a possible new series for The BFD. If it is to continue we need readers to submit photos of a current scene along with a photo of what it looked like many years ago.
For example:
Today’s Then and Now are as follows:
Send your Then and Now photos to sb [at] the bfd.co.nz
*Please make sure that you provide the year that each photo was taken as well as the location.
*Please put Then and Now in the subject line.
Capitalism developed cheap appliances that literally save lives – the green-left hate them.
How the National Museum of Australia became a dull showcase of wokeism.
The parallels to a memorable election decades ago are unmistakable.
Tocqueville was generous, both with his biting criticisms and his reverent praises, whereby as a matter of necessity due to one social system springing out of the other – like Athena from the head of Zeus – the democratic experiment was compared most obviously with its aristocratic parent.
There no evidence that foreign aid has ever turned a poor country into a rich country; it is much more likely that foreign aid undermines economic development by giving politicians in recipient nations an excuse to delay or avoid needed reforms.
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
This regular daily post is the place to joke and banish negative thoughts.
