"Christine Rankin is quite entitled to wear whatever she likes but we do wish to raise some issues of sartorial challenges within the public service!!!"

Sister Malaria, Pustulant Mistress and Acting Leader of the Corrective Party broke wind on the issue of the controversial WINZ chief executive today:

"Firstly, at least Ms.Rankin is actually wearing clothes, unlike the perpetrators of World Nudeness Day. Secondly, at least the clothes are appropriate ones for her gender. Thirdly, at least they are suitably modest.

Why is Ms. Rankin being subjected to these unseemly remarks when there are all manner of Scotsmen, wanton lycra clad cycle couriers clad in shameful clinging outfits that leave nothing to the imagination, inciting palpitations to virginal sisters who prefer not to see men's nether bits outlined in striking relief against their heaving chiselled pectoral and abdominal muscles??" questioned the paramount SM Nun in New Zealand.

Contact: Sister Malaria SM
(06) 3583609

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>