28 Jan 2015

The Panel with Peter Elliott and Max Ritchie (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:34 pm on 28 January 2015

Topics - teachers, nurses and retail staff are the UK's unhappiest workers, reports the Independent. Mainly because of money. The generosity of New Zealanders. The well-known Ngapuhi hapu leader David Rankin, no stranger to blkunt and controversial pronouncements, says the burka should be banned at this year's Waitangi Day celebrations. Benedict Cumberbatch's mea culpa for describing black actors as 'coloured' in an interview. A Dunedin woman's been handed a parking fine of $65 for being 11 minutes late returning to her car. We heard last week that female actors are increasingly taking umbrage at being asked to twirl for photographers on the red carpet. The point being that men aren't asked to twirl. A coroner has told a woman not to blame herself after she sent home a drunk man who turned up at her door in the middle of the night.