I blame the feral response to National’s announcement – that they will not be dropping the legal blood alcohol limit to 0.05 g% – squarely on the media. I am certain that it is the media’s propensity always to give the maximum amount of airtime and newsprint to the most hysterical over-reaction that encourages people [...]

Often government announcements are a puzzling series of contradictions but the announcements made on the subject of mining in conservation land are not amongst these. The editor of the Saturday Herald appear to think that the dismissal of news coverage of the Forest and Bird leak and the search for the source of the leak [...]

Nuclear Measles: Things that get launched from Russian nuclear submarines. What you get when you have a single case of measles notified to a public health department hyped up by a flu pandemic. I was working last Saturday when dozens of patients worriedly asked for a measles vaccination. This is a seriously strange thing to [...]