I strongly urge all retailers to heed the warnings issued about these products, pull them from distribution immediately, and ship them back to Sony.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering.

We strongly urge people if you do not have to get out, please stay at home.

The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a drop in sales, but January sales traditionally dip.