A quick word

Mike Munro’s article (Weekend Herald, January 8) was headed “Govt must remain agile…”.’ Surely, this should have been “Govt must become agile…” Chris Elias, Mission Bay.

The headline of Mike Munro’s article is either a masterstroke of irony or the Prime Minister is moonlighting in the subeditor’s office. Stewart Hawkins, St Heliers.

Novak Djokovic breaks his silence: “Don’t you know who I am?” Perry Harlen, Mt Maunganui.

DJ Dementia just forgot the rules. DJ-Okovic thinks he makes the rules. Grant Price, O¯ rewa.

I don’t accept his risible excuses for “his” errors and omissions of passport laws and don’t appreciate his family and countrymen and women turning the whole charade into some imagined form of Serb-bashing.

Larry Mitchell, Rothesay Bay.

Suddenly the whole world has lost its sense of humour. Everyone is against the Joker.

S Mohanakrishnan, Mt Roskill.

Novak is the best player, exciting, great legs and the bluest eyes. Go Djoko, you show them in Melbourne.

Susan Lawrence, Meadowbank.

If I had the money, I would buy any land available between the development site and the “view” and plant a forest of the most rapidly growing trees, eucalyptus, poplars, conifers or whatever. Andrew Montgomery, Remuera.

We might as well mow down all the native forests and call the place Nude Zealand.

Mikki Buckland, Pa¯pa¯moa.

We need to change our ways and give up some things. A view is the easiest of all to give up. David Tyler, Beach Haven.

Saturday’s editorial was very sensible. Even academics who write to the Spectator and are denigrated by fellow academics need to be protected.

Nick Hamilton, Remuera.

It will be an interesting point in law if individuals do not have to take responsibility for their opinions deliberately expressed publicly, in the employment court deliberation.

Gary Carter,

Gulf Harbour.

You can’t be serious in describing a tweaking of the health rules for an everchanging, once in a 100-year pandemic as a “backflip”, (Weekend Herald, January 8). My goodness, we would be in trouble if our Government is not free to change when necessary.

David Ready, Padstow, NSW.

Is there any chance users of e-scooters might think of parking them off to one side rather than across the footpath?

B. Watkin, Devonport.