Following last week’s events in Paris there is a cartoon which is crying out to be drawn. Unfortunately I can’t draw to save my life, so I’ll describe it instead.

The scene is Auckland Harbour. At the dockside is not a ship but just the top of a mast and some bits of floating wreckage.

At the masthead flies the Greenpeace flag and perhaps the name Rainbow Warrior is written on one of the bits of flotsam.

Above all this on the dock stands the French president proclaiming to the world his government’s support for freedom of speech and opposition to terrorism.

I wonder if the surviving journalists at Charlie Hebdo would print such a cartoon in their magazine.

Michael Trevaskis, Alstonville