Leaders should be in court

The Covid enquiry has reached its conclusions and found that Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays were responsible for the deaths of 23,000 people.

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And yet he's still allowed to claim a whopping £115,000 a year, for life, just for being a former Prime Minister.

I wonder at what point in the future there will be an enquiry into politicians' lack of action on climate change. On August 14, 1912, the New Zealand newspaper, the Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette. published an article titled "Coal consumption affecting climate." This described how the burning of coal was adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and could raise the Earth's temperature considerably in a few centuries.