It is as always good to be back. It is true what they say: there is no place like home

London is brilliant, but home is home.

But yet again, sadly, the gateway to home, or perhaps, more importantly, the gateway to the tourist mecca that is this country, was on its full, incompetent, backwatery, monopolistic, haphazard display in the early hours of yesterday morning.

If we are to invite millions to this country, if we are to market our selves  worldwide and as a tourism mecca, we really must start getting our act together, and that starts the minute you hit the airfield

Auckland Airport is an embarrassment, it has been an embarrassment for years

It appears to have been under construction/ come refurbishment for years; it is slow, it is understaffed, it is under-resourced, it is a hopelessly amateurish way to arrive here.