Tova O’Brien gave Jamie Lee Ross a hard interview when his power was all gone and he was reduced to a political pimple, but she sure gave current Justice Minister Kris Faafoi an easy ride in her interview this morning. In the first place, whatever is New Zealand doing with a punk ex TV One journalist as Justice Minister? A

A $35000 electric car you throw away after five years? Mass insanity is not always simple to detect, but surely even the most dull of intellects would have to be suspicious concerning the West’s intemperate rush to embrace electric vehicles. Leaving aside the multitude of peripheral issues, the two major questions the promoters of electric vehicles have not answered are: