I was shocked to read of 200 rape cases a month currently in New Zealand.

I was pleased to see His Grace declared the recent earthquake was God’s wrath at the media’s grossly unfair criticism of him for his perfectly legitimate departure from Auckland before the lockdown. That sounds probable.

Nearly four decades ago, in 1984 I wrote a novel “The Permit”. Given its sales success, driven in part by 1984 being a super-charged political year, I imagine many folk have read it.

The article below is from The Australian.

It’s food for thought vis a vis our arguable over-reactions.

Wellington’s airport is one third owned by the City Council, God only knows why, and the balance by a substantial and successful investment entity.