Poor Christopher Luxon. What trials he has overcome.
It was so very touching — not to mention quite the surprise — to learn last weekend that he was in fact a conjoined twin.

And even though this turned out to be no more true than such previous stories as
I was just a little boy when the Crusaders first played
and
Hello Te Puke I am in you,
there’s no denying the appeal of these little humanising touches to make boring old politics more interesting.