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Switched on National Radio in the car just before and heard the tail end of a speech by Helen Clark - all I heard was that she is proud of not having sent New Zealanders to invade Iraq - and then a retaliatory speech by John Key in which he called her "hysterical". He wasn't saying he found her speech so amusing that it had him in hysterics, he was calling the Prime Minister herself hysterical. Interesting in that five minutes before that I'd been reading a story in which suffragists were being put down for showing an interest in politics by the use of the same word. Things haven't changed much in a hundred years.

Mr Key ended his next sentence with the word "period". I don't know whether he just has wombs on the brain and can't stop talking about them, or if his keenness to ingratiate himself with the USA causes him to adopt their punctuation terminology.