Just another fortnight before the newspaper silly season starts. Long suffering Herald readers enduring huge withdrawal symptoms can finally gain some peace, as in line with tradition, the paper gives “The Tragic life and death of Sonny Fai” another run.

After their record 1991 20% subscriber collapse, thanks solely to their mid-year preposterous maori wonderfulness six pages of arrant nonsense supplement, Stuff have tried to recover by running balanced and even favourable comment about the National Party. But they’re devious buggers and certainly don’t fool me.

Apart from bringing shame to rational New Zealanders and disgrace to the venerable Royal Society’s reputation, what’s specially outrageous about this ratbag outfit is it’s funded by taxpayers.

The above, an unbelievable Stuff headline yesterday with an underlying account how our Defence Minister, Peeni Henare, is “monitoring” the massive Russian troops build-up on Ukraine’s border.