For those of you thoroughly fed-up with Jacinda’s indulgent hogging of television, feel for long suffering Victorians.

The state Premier Daniel Andrews, is right up there with Castro for hours long daily television monologues on covid. At least Castro inserted some emotion into his tirades whereas Andrews’ typical Victorian nasal droning qualifies him as probably the most boring blow-hard in Australian political history.

Goldman Sachs has ordered its 6000 UK workforce to return to their offices full-time and cease exploiting the work from home two days a week outdated policy. Outdated as unlike New Zealand, anyone in Britain not vaccinated, is because they chose not to be, vaccinations being readily available.

John Key’s common-sense criticism of the one trick pony Government’s lockdowns deservedly received wide-spread support.

But a couple of exceptions stood out. First, came the social media infantile demand for Key to advise how many Covid deaths he would trade for freedom.

Black American economist and academic Thomas Sowell, still going strong at 90, ran the standard gambit from being a marxist in his youth until reality struck, and like so many, he saw the light and became a market economy enthusiast.

The Hawkes Bay Today newspaper has revealed another previously unknown human right.