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Month: December 2021

  • Deeply politicised police a danger to democracy

    News that the BFD blog and its customers and commenters are under police “surveillance” should not come as a surprise. Like most of our public institutions, Police in NZ have…

  • In 1944, Patrick Gower would have narked on Anne Frank

    A core principle of journalism is a willingness to protect the weak from the powerful, and to always hold those in power to account. When journalists start working for the…

  • Christopher Luxon’s false dawn

    National die-hards are flat out cheering for their “renewed” party, and who can blame them? Of course Christopher Luxon would make a “better” PM than Jacinda Ardern. Of course National…