Almost 3000 people made submissions to the review of the End of Life Choice Act re the state assisting dying, or specifically euthanasia, this now the situation in a number of western European nations.

Wellingtons Post newspaper runs a high human interest regular item in which they recount the back story of diverse small business owners.

Their latest is an account of a Queenstown husband and wife’s struggles marketing a sunscreen balm and an insect spray.

Journalists who are essentially spectators of life, are notorious for pack-hunting. It’s currently fashionable for them to dismiss the Prime Minister as not up to much, calibre-wise.

Under the ironic heading “Fast Facts” Stuff printed,

Future historians will dub the current era as the age of uncertainty.