“What do you think of this ad from Air New Zealand?”

The question, and a YouTube link, came from my friend Bebhinn Kelly, Chief Fashionista at www.hellwafashion.com, and a regular supplier of juicy, thought-provoking and sometimes controversial material for AWR.

I clicked. I watched. I pondered. I considered blogging. I demurred.

That was earlier this week. This morning, I got my daily

Sarah Bainbridge speaks asylum – the first language of refugees around the world.

On July 30, 2009, she bravely stood atop the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square (on behalf of Refugee Action UK), and used her asylum-speaking skills to help dispel some of the myths about refugees.

Coincidentally, there was a group of young refugees who happened to be visiting Trafalgar Square at

Mark Barker is right (partially). Queen Rania is wrong (partially). And I should have checked the facts more carefully…

Five days ago, I made a blog post titled Use Your Voice And Talk Man Talk in which I quoted Jordan's Queen Rania, who said in a pre-International Women’s Day video (that can be viewed a the aforementioned blog post): “Here’s a factoid for you:  women use 20,000 words a day,