The Panel

National is sitting pretty above Labour in the latest Colmar Brunton poll, but Simon Bridges' personal numbers have dropped. Victoria University is holding a meeting tonight at the Rutherford House lecture theatre, the first of three meetings this week to consult on its proposed change of name to "University of Wellington". In Auckland the once-mighty Avondale Bowling Club is struggling now for members. As Stuff points out, it was once a haunt of Phil Goff's, and Helen Clark was its patron. Do you think you could keep cats inside all the time?

Every year in Australia, 17 thousand households answer questions for The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey.

Which cows does beef come from? How long is tasty cheese aged for? And why don't penguins have knees?

American comedians and film directors have been deleting thousands of their old tweets says Slate magazine. What the Panelists Guy Williams and Julia Hartley Moore want to talk about. 'Celia' is screening in NZ, the Celia Lashlie documentary movie that got funded courtesy of a generous listener to The Panel when the traditional documentary funders turned it down. Hundreds turned out to see it in Auckland yesterday at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. New Zealand lamb prices are at their highest ever, more than $8 a kg. We want to talk about lamb prices, and the return of wool, and when cows attack, with Miles Anderson from Fed Farmers.

What the Panelists Ian Telfer and Mava Enoka want to talk about.

The BSA is looking at our television watershed. It operates in timebands, so you won't see risque content or hear a lot of swearing early in the evening but you might later on.

We don't talk anymore. On the phone, anyway.A British report says that the total volume of calls made on mobiles fell by 1.7% in 2017, even though making them is the cheapest it has ever been.

Road Safety advocate Clive Matthews-Wilson is reiterating a call for public buses to have seatbelts installed for passengers. This on the back of the two big recent bus crashes on Mt Ruapehu and the Manawatu. One of the buses had also failed its WOF nine times and was in bad condition.

The Crusaders are hoping for a full-house in Christchurch tomorrow when they take on South Africa's Lions. The Crusaders chief executive Hamish Riach expects this final to be a sell-out and says that as of last night there were just a few hundred seats left.

The world's most influential and wealthy social media stars have been announced. According to the list compiled by Hopper HQ, Instagram has helped some beauty bloggers become household names.One of them is makeup artist Huda Kattan who has an audience of 26 million on Instagram. She earns an average of $33,000 per post.