The Herald’s Ana Samways, always good for an amusing offbeat story, reports an Australian study shows physical attractiveness results in lighter court sentences. To that I say, quite bloody right. Ugly buggers should be locked up permanently, whether guilty or not.

Steve Elers, a Massey (maori) academic writes brilliantly.

What’s important about his comments is that although represented as a maverick, they give a voice to the sane silent majority.

Here’s a recent Steve piece published in the Manawatu Guardian.

Green Party co-leader, Marama Davidson has revealed another natural “human right” to add to the lengthy existing list of such fictions.

This one is housing.

Break out the champagne. Pull your weeping family members out of their beds and tell them the wonderful news and that their worries are finally over. For the Herald in a headline article, advised the glorious news that Millie Holmes is back in New Zealand, currently under quarantine lockdown.

The Herald advises that Paul Winstanley, the head of Research at Jones Lang, the international commercial property agency, reports increasing vacancies in older Auckland fringe location CBD office-buildings.