How ironic is this? TVNZ chairwoman Dame Therese Walsh and the company’s CEO Kevin Kenrick, two Christian names that should set alarm bells ringing, told a parliamentary select committee they would “not rule out” buying Stuff’s rapidly declining assets, or Radio NZ. Ironic? Well, at least for me because nigh on four decades back I served on the Broadcasting Enquiry Commission which split TVNZ and Radio NZ into separate entities.

On balance, New Zealand’s most geographically isolated status of any nation, while carrying disadvantages, overall is a plus.

It’s increasingly hard to keep up with the growth in the subdivisions of the homosexual community’s acronym, currently LGBTQI.

As might be expected given their numbers, many of our politicians have little known talents, hobbies and past accomplishments outside of their political lives.

A quarter century back I wrote an article about the joys of reading the newspaper classifieds. (ref) Sadly no longer, at least with the metropolitans.

But not so with the provincial papers with their local news focus and corresponding intimacy. Take these two snippets from the Hawkes Bay Tribune of February 12^th.

At the top of one page came this startling Personal Column classified item.