Bah humbug, I've been ordered to write about Christmas presents. I don't even know if we are allowed to say Christmas any more so if you only see Happy here I've been censored.
Anyway let's go to the news first.
Showing the power of F1, immediately after Nico Rosberg announced his retirement, New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Bunnings boss John Gillam, Wellington Phoenix head coach Ernie Merrick and French PM Manuel Valls all threw in the towel.
Australian police have finally admitted that speeding is not the major cause of the road carnage. What they didn't say was their political leaders would keep adding speed cameras because who else would pay for new bike lanes.
VW Australia has started recall work on 61,000 cars with dieselgate emissions software. This is only about 40 years after VW began recalls on the 11 million cars involved in the scandal overseas and after they forked out $20 billion to buy crook cars back in Trumpland.
Oh wait! ASIC has told BMW Australia to pay back $72 million for ripping off car buyers who financed through the firm.
Bentley, owned by VW, is recalling about a quarter of the Bentaygas sold so far in the US because of loose screws. Australian buyers who have forked out $450,000 for the truck should buy the Stanley 20-piece screwdriver set from Bunnings.