I admire Julian Batchelor for his courage and patriotism.

A couple of years back on this site I predicted 43 year old Kemi Badenoch would be the next Tory Party leader following their defeat next year to Labour.

Following the sell-out enrolment achieved for the initial one-year Diploma Course, SPEAKING SPARROW, starting next year, Waikato university Vice-Chancellor Neil Quigley has now announced another brilliantly innovative new six-month diploma, also to commence next year.

Readers will have noticed Stuff’s ludicrous practice whenever mentioning any actual or pretend maori, of listing the subject’s tribal ancestry in brackets after their name.

Two questions arise, both about consistency.