A fortnight back, Bill Ralston, writing in the New Zealand Herald, took a short-sighted gratuitous swipe at Bishop Tamaki’s assertion that Christchurch’s earthquakes are caused by God’s wrath at homosexuality. Frankly, this sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

An extraordinary article in a recent Economist put the foreign exchange revenue yielded from British courts at an amount slightly higher than all of New Zealand’s export earnings from all sources.

New Zealand is experiencing a horrific crime wave with endless news of mainly maori violence, murders and thefts in our cities.

The New Zealand Herald reports how a non-member of the Greymouth Christian community Gloriavale, is seeking a judicial intervention in the community’s managing Trust and the removal of the current trustees.

A New Zealand Herald correspondent Jon Stafford of Hastings, wrote that “he has nothing but praise for how Jacinda Ardern… handled the White Island explosion”.