“Blind Peer grabbed Masseuse’s bottom and asked for extras”, so proclaimed a Britain’s Daily Mail heading.

A recently published study of the 469 recessions which have occurred in 194 nations since 1988, showed the International Monetary Fund foresaw only four of them, and none at all in rich nations.

Six weeks ago in an item headed “Recession or Depression” I wrote about the inevitable economic collapse led by the tourist industry going out of business through the coronavirus plague. It’s all now come to pass with Rotorua and Queenstown, as I forecast, now ghost-towns.

“Maria Folau’s former club fined $100,000 for breaching salary cap”,

Amidst all of the coronavirus gloom it’s great to report some good news.