Colin Craig continues to delight. His latest announcement after a decade of losing litigation, that he will now appeal to the Supreme Court over his sexual harassment of his former Press Secretary, will have the judges abuzz with anticipation.

An electrician’s classified advertisement in the local weekly freebie, The Hutt News, offering the standard appliance repairs and such-like, advises of an additional “service”.

Here’s a line which will amuse readers, taken from English comic novelist David Nicholls’s entertaining 2006 “The Understudy”. This was a piss-take on thespianism.

Last Saturday the Stuff web-site lauded itself for its “ground-breaking journalism”, as it reported how it has cleaned up the night before at the Voyager journalism awards.

This is a long established annual entertainment spectacle. Experience saw me instantly shift to the Herald web-site and in line with the annual ritual, it transpired that they had miraculously also swept the floor with these awards.

In a world of disappearing democracies it was encouraging to see Syria buck the trend with last week’s Presidential election.

Bashar al-Assad did quite well, gaining 95% of the vote.