The world learns of tin-pot Key

"Obviously we live in democracy where the bill of rights protects freedom of expression," Cheer said. "We don't generally have the government interfere with what the media does."

Not generally, we don't, no. But in the case of John Key and his 'bland' tea-pot tape, we'll make an exception, it seems, and send in the police to raid the offices of our media and seize every scrap of 'evidence' they can find.

A prime minister, setting the cops on the papers to save himself from being revealed by the comments he made?

It's getting pretty sick now.

The Guardian carries the disturbing events out into the world and makes New Zealand look tin-pot.