HIDESIGHT Imagine if whalers could ranch their own whales. You could sponsor one and follow it by computer – and no doubt there'd  be a phone app.

HIDESIGHT I believed people couldn’t be left alone to do as they please: they were too greedy, the market too capricious, resources too precious and the planet too fragile.

Labour vows to try and fill the gap over the next two months.

HIDESIGHT It would be a whole lot easier if Green/Labour just promised poor families $4 a week. Cost: $38m.