Melissa is a Senior lecturer (Education) at Waikato university and a Council member of the Free Speech Union.

An absolute must when in Glasgow is walking down town to the city centre on Saturday morning when the streets are given across to a huge array of diverse nutters and causes’ campaigners. It’s all great fun and to outsiders often quite unbelievable.

After massive billboard front-page and editorial beat-ups when the issue first arose, the Nash enquiry finally published its report. But both Stuff and the Herald barely mentioned it. Why?

“Sadistic convicted killer caught torturing hedgehog while wearing fake pair of woman’s breasts”, that from Britain’s Daily Mail last week.

Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is finally gone, having resigned before Associate Justice Minister Deborah Russell could sack him.