Peter Williams: Just what is Social Cohesion?

Every so often a phrase creeps into the lexicon which we’re supposed to understand and accept as a good thing for life.

Like social cohesion.

Just who used it first in modern New Zealand parlance I don’t know but it’s not a new concept.

Mike's Minute: Health is adjusting back to being fair

We end the week with a bit of good health news.

We have been weighed down this week with the scrap over 14 layers of management, no doctors in Dargaville at certain times of the day, four new CEOs in four regional operations that will allegedly sort the mess out, former board members snapping back at criticism from the Prime Minister, and a myopic media trying their best to out Shane Reti on what may or may not be some sort of semi-scandal around his interpretation of the need to sack boards.