The Panel

When the going gets tough some MPs just bottle it. The UK's Boris Johnson has joined his Tory colleague David Davis in exiting the Cabinet in the face of an unpalatable Brexit deal. And in New Zealand we saw the likes of Steven Joyce and Jonathan Coleman say goodbye to politics altogether after National lost the 2017 election. Whatever happened to having the courage of ones convictions?

An EU diplomat has managed to get away with not paying $20k she owed a Wellington landlord in rent. Her landlord says it proves landlords have no power. And maybe it proves diplomatic immunity has too much. We talk to law professor Bill Hodge from the University of Auckland about whether changes are needed for the immunity statutes.

The government's confirmed the purchase of four new maritime patrol planes. It's costing $2.3bn. Green MP Golriz Gharaman doesn't want to see them fitted-out to carry missiles and bombs and that leads us to asking just what is New Zealand's military role in the Pacific? Should we be combat-ready or concentrate on search and rescue and monitoring the fishery?

Nurses are to strike on Thursday for the first time in 30 years. They're sticking to their guns but the acting Prime Minister Winston Peters says there's just no more money. So, what happens now? We ask law professor Margaret Wilson of the University of Waikato.

Nurses are to strike on Thursday for the first time in 30 years. They're sticking to their guns but the acting Prime Minister Winston Peters says there's just no more money. So, what happens now? We ask law professor Margaret Wilson of the University of Waikato. The government's confirmed the purchase of four new maritime patrol planes. It's costing $2.3bn. Green MP Golriz Gharaman doesn't want to see them fitted-out to carry missiles and bombs and that leads us to asking just what is New Zealand's military role in the Pacific? Should we be combat-ready or concentrate on search and rescue and monitoring the fishery? An EU diplomat has managed to get away with not paying $20k she owed a Wellington landlord in rent. Her landlord says it proves landlords have no power. And maybe it proves diplomatic immunity has too much. We talk to law professor Bill Hodge from the University of Auckland about whether changes are needed for the immunity statutes. When the going gets tough some MPs just bottle it. The UK's Boris Johnson has joined his Tory colleague David Davis in exiting the Cabinet in the face of an unpalatable Brexit deal. And in New Zealand we saw the likes of Steven Joyce and Jonathan Coleman say goodbye to politics altogether after National lost the 2017 election. Whatever happened to having the courage of ones convictions?

Many of us have felt hangry - that's that feeling of being grumpy and realising that you are hungry because as soon as you eat you feel so much better.

Thai cave rescue, Auckland motorway congestion and eye colour.

Researchers from two universities in South Korea have found that feeling young might indicate the general health of your brain. People who feel younger actually have the structural characteristics of a younger brain. How old do our Panelists Niki Bezzant and Gary McCormick feel? Wallace Chapman who's in his forties says he feels sixty-five. What the Panelists Gary McCormick and Niki Bezzant want to talk about.Australian couple Moe Barr and Sasha Patrick are getting married in New Zealand because of our same-sex-friendly laws. Unfortunately the good will didn't extend to a bakery that they wanted to make their wedding cake for them. The baker says she was following her beliefs in refusing to bake for the couple. A woman who kept feeding her children's school medical certificates was taken to court by the school for their extreme absenteeism. Are medical certificates too easy to get? We talk to the chair of the Medical Council Andrew Connolly. There's a new club in Christchurch where you can dance the night away. But you'll be doi git without alcohol, drugs or shoes. The concept is "conscious clubbing" a form of dance therapy that organisers say is transforming. Can the Panelists imagine shaking their tail feather without a drink? An Australian government minister is proposing a law to make people have to give and receive verbal consent before engaging in sexual activity.In the #metoo age this might make perfect sense but will it ruin the moment?

Four boys have been successfully rescued and taken to hospital from a cave in Thailand.

A movie about Teina Pora who was wrongly convicted and jailed for the 1992 murder of Auckland woman Susan Burdett will air on TV this weekend. Our regular Panelist Jonathan Krebs was one of the lawyers who defended Pora. He talks to us about not getting to play himself in In Dark Places.