What a marvellous victory by the Black Caps, despite both sides missing some of their stars.

Since I opted not to renew my subscription to Wellington’s Dominion-Post last year, I’ve kept readers informed of the consequences.

The above, a Stuff site heading. And the accompanying story’s opening line; brace yourself… “A stuffed huia worth as much as $15,000, was stolen…”

It takes world-class sub-editing stupidity to take a journalist’s story opening with a dollar value amount and then write a heading calling it priceless.

The grotesque Trump is the greatest ever scar on America’s image, to an unfathomable degree. The truly astonishing aspect of this is that he retains such sizeable support, admittedly from the lesser intellects in society.

With hundreds of millions of people now vaccinated against Covid there’s no sensible reason why we can’t open our borders to them.