On Radio New Zealand’s website last week there was a picture of a geezer standing on a footpath in Auckland. He was looking into a pothole in a very serious sort of way. What had the pothole done to deserve this? It merely existed.
Potholes, it seems, are the enemies of the people. For one thing they make motorists say rude words when they drive into them and end up in China. The photograph was hilarious. It might be the worst news photo of a politician ever taken – bar those ones of MPs doing tours of fascinating factories while wearing hair nets and pretending they really don’t mind looking like ’s Ena Sharples. Oh,
