A household leaflet for a new political party called “New Conservative” turned up in my letterbox.

It’s leader, a Leighton Baker, would have done himself a favour dressed in a suit and tie, and a bigger one still had he used an editor.

Ngapuhi leader David Rankin gets angry about the mainstream media’s soft-soaping with maori hypocrisy.

He issued the statement below in response to the contrived fashion-following maori furore over statues such as Captain Cook.

I’m pleased to see the appeal by the Mainzeal directors has a fixture next month. The guts of their prosecution was for trading while insolvent, for which they were fined a total of $36million.

The Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has written to our political parties urging them to lay off racism in the coming election campaign.

His letter has been joyfully spread by its recipients around the capital and for all I know, elsewhere.

I was shocked as both a substantial Auckland ratepayer and central government taxpayer, to read that the Auckland City Council and the government have contributed over $250 million of our money to the staging of the Americas Cup.