OPINION: It really is getting harder to lampoon government bureaucrats when they do such a good job of it themselves. Anyone in the primary sector will know about the clowns covering the countryside in the red tape we all have to wade through. Spare a thought then for media outfit Stuff who were threatened with fines up to $200,000 by a snivelling civil servant from the MoH for illustrating a quiz question with a photo of part of the cover of a 45-year-old copy Playboy. As Stuff notes, “It wasn’t the Playboy cover which caused offence. As Regulations Minister David Seymour notes, “The real scandal here is, well, no wonder we’ve got problems in healthcare when they’re doing the Stuff quiz during work time.”