I confess I’m hugely amused by religion which strikes me as the ultimate cop-out in explaining the unknown.

Writing in today’s Financial Times, the very clever Janan Ganesh said of today’s divided America, “… the question of what day of the week it is will generate a 50-50 polling result”.

A couple of months back when probably to everyone’s understandable delight, the usually all-conquering Crusaders rugby team had notched us 8 losses in their first 9 games and were at the bottom of the table, the New Zealand Herald wrote an amazing editorial saying don’t write them off.

Feel for Guardian Weekly journo Zoe Williams. Within a day of publishing a feature article on Denmark’s equality and most of all safety, where no-one locks things up, people leave babies in prams in the street and totally trust strangers, which she describes as “social trust”, for which Denmark scores the highest in the world, an assassin had a crack at killing the Prime Minister.

In today’s New Zealand Herald is a large display advertisement illustrated ironically, given its content, with a picture of a human brain.