Oh what fun! The media are now in full cry with their standard pack-hunting turning on Mallard with resignation demands over his rape allegation, and the subsequent legal costs met by taxpayers.

Now I can’t speak for radio and television news as I neither listen nor watch them but I well remember when this matter first arose.

I’ve just come into Wellington for a lunch and am shaking with disbelief.

Three days ago the Pope hitched up his ballgown and bowled down to Rome’s tourist hotspot, the Spanish Steps.

Acclaimed dressmaker Dame Trelise Cooper recently designed a formal dress comprising six overlapping layers of material and dubbed it “Trail of Tiers”. Why? Because, in its overlapping layers it forms a perpendicular trail.

Senior journalist Andrea Vance, who should know better, writing about housing affordability said a house is everyone’s human right.