I don’t want to be unkind but unless you’re a maths whizz, read no further as the numerical logic will be over your head.

There’s been nothing more mindless than the fashion this year of politicians having a weirdo gesticulating and face-pulling alongside them when addressing the television cameras. This absurdity supposedly caters for the tiny handful of stone-deaf people whom I’m damn sure would prefer captions.

Over the last two months those of us following the news on the array of international television channels, must have viewed literally hundreds of proclaimed health experts, mainly American. Nearly every one of them has been interviewed against the background of bookshelves.

Woman rode motorbike naked, got fingered in the street and punched a blind man.

The above a story heading in Metro, Britain’s biggest selling newspaper with a 1,400,000 circulation.

The NZ Herald recently highlighted the suicide of a young self-employed butcher who saw his life’s work go down the drain by the utterly insane edict that meat could only be purchased at supermarkets.