I’m refraining from comment on the cyclone as it’s gaining justified massive coverage in all media.

When I suggested recently that the media ask Chris Hipkins, why given our current record covid infection numbers and deaths, if it was a good idea to throw the country into a ludicrously punitive lockdown in 2020, 2021 and 2022, it’s not now?

“The Warehouse starts selling fresh fruit, veges”

Last year I issued a warning about an investment proposition being advertised aimed at the unsophisticated. I say that as anyone with a scintilla of investment knowledge would laugh at it.

Currently, debate is occurring in Auckland re the location of a cruise ship terminal. Newspaper correspondents and commentators all talk of the economic benefit from a suitable facility, stemming from the tourists retail spending. The reality is very different.