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I felt sorry for James Shaw last Wednesday morning. Guyon Espiner was like a lion with his head in his mouth, and all Minister Shaw could do was wave his hands. Guyon is right, the Green Party have been ineffectual advocating for the environment as part of this coalition. But it isn’t Minister Shaw’s fault. He is an incredibly smart and hardworking Minister with absolutely no bargaining power. And that lack of bargaining power is thanks to his own party members tying his hands.

Eventually, you have to muster the courage to do the right thing, or say what needs to be said about what is wrong in an organisation, however painful and difficult, and sometimes dangerous, that might be.

While it was good to read of Facebook’s banning white nationalist content from its platforms the company needs to be more proactive on ALL hate speech and vile content videos.

You may have been forgiven for thinking Audrey had nothing at all to say about the terrible events recently, because she seems to have skipped over these matters.

As fingers point at our intelligence and security services ahead of an inquiry it’s also worth looking at the fingers pointing back at the accusers.

A lot of jokes don’t make sense until you get to the end.

The aspect of these killings which, in my view is rapidly being swept under the carpet, is the failure of New Zealand GCSB (spies) and police intelligence units on both sides of the Tasman.