"Graham Capon has a sinister hidden agenda in his benign pronouncements on genetic modification. The Corrective Party has long warned about the effects of old turkeys in New Zealand politics. We consider his latest cluckings to be part of a conspiracy to mass-produce his kind so they can be the beach-head of alien space turkeys from Uranus!!!" said Sister Astrolabile, astronun for the SM nun political wing.

"Capons cannot reproduce normally- never mind that elaborate hologram which makes it seem as if it has its own brood. Rather, it wants to lull us into a false sense of security before rampaging alien space turkeys invade this planet and force us to bear their progeny with their strange ovipositors!!!"

Contact Sister Palpitatia The Corrective Party: Turning the Stomach (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>>