Below, his comments on the utterly disgraceful Auckland University episode a year back, which could never have happened under the late Stu McCutcheon’s watch when he was Vice-Chancellor.

Retired scientist Dr Bob Brockie recently penned the enclosed article for this blog.

In these often contentious and gloomy times it’s always heartening to encounter some good news.

A friend of mine, a famous in his field Berkeley Professor wrote the following in a recent letter to me.

The above, a grossly untrue Stuff website heading re an American passenger flight.

We claim to be a democracy in which equal participation in the political process is open to everyone. It’s simply not true and has never been.