Few industries match mine (Commercial Property) when it comes to bullshit job titles.

Chairman of the Reserve Bank and current Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University, economist Neil Quigley is one of the most multi-talented people I’ve ever met.

I was surprised by how much generally favourable attention Mohamad AI Fayed received following his death at 94. I had an amusing exchange with him in the late 1980s.

Bishop Brian Tamaki, told the NZ Herald he received a vision from God instructing him to disrupt political campaigns in the coming election.

The most influential person in my life was a school-teacher, Guy Bliss, who back in 1956 preached to the school’s first 6^th form (about 6 of us in his history class (the rest had fled at 15, then the school leaving age, mainly for factory work) at Naenae College a single message, namely that absolutely everything without exception is interesting.