TXT the editor

❚ Re endometriosis sufferer: I sympathise with you, Kasie Millar. I do not have this painful condition but know plenty who do. I suggest you contact Patients Advocate for Natural Hormone Therapy in Tauranga. MA

❚ Labour has been honourable over National’s troubles. Hasn’t stopped the Nats from swiping at Jacinda. Petty.

❚ Jami-lee Ross will have no trouble getting a job on Coronation Street.

❚ Good to see cartoon Munro is due back soon. We love The Little Things too, so could we please have both cartoons in the paper?

❚ Good to see our Horizons rates going towards flash BMWS for the boss...

❚ Re R65/tailgating, such a great

tongue-in-cheek text – no such thing as tailgating if you pull left and let the car behind you past.

❚ I note the Standard has wasted a full page on Iain Lees-galloway on Saturday. I would have preferred a full page of actual news. [It was on a feature page, not a news page – Ed.]

❚ After weeks of bleating from Simon Bridges about the ‘‘implosion’’ of the Labour Party over the Curran and Whaitiri affairs, it is so satisfying to see him eat a faecal sandwichas his own party does the same. Rennat

❚ Friday’s cartoon of Jacinda is just as ‘‘offensive’’ as the one of Serena Williams but there won’t be any outcry from the usual politically correct brigade.