On Monday I shall be out-lining on this blog why this year’s election will be a landslide victory for the Opposition and also mark the demise of the Green Party.

“Breaching lockdown for flour” proclaimed the Dominion-Post heading in a lead article by a Peter Fuller.

It opened with the assertion, “People are flouting lockdown rules by driving across the windy Rimutaka Hill road to grab a bag of flour in the Wairarapa,” so Fuller asserted.

“I am sure your energy, optimism and sense of humour will help to defeat the disease,” Putin wrote in a letter to Boris.

What a year to date!

We opened with the White Island horror, this quickly superseded by the horrendous Australian bushfires.

Last December I predicted on this site that George Pell would win his final appeal.