Recall the news item a few months back of the arrest of six men who were planning to kidnap the Michigan State governor. Their motive; to make a symbolic gesture as they were upset at the covid inspired restraints.

National MP Maureen Pugh has, according to the NZ Herald, been struck by lightning on separate occasions an extraordinary three times.

The above, a recent opening line in the New Zealand Herald by its Science reporter, Jamie Morton.

Plainly Jamie doesn’t read the foreign press. All year New Zealand has been a laughing stock in the British media over its closed off society and vaccine failures.

A week ago I wrote its time to arm the police, an attitude inconceivable to me up until the last half dozen years.

Well talk of the devil, two days later the New Zealand Herald came out with a polling survey I was unaware they had commissioned, which showed a significant majority of New Zealanders now backed such a move, as do nearly 75% of the police.