Have New Zealand’s right-wing nationalists nurtured similar longings for a drummer to beat the advance against the Left’s unceasing campaign to sever the ties with New Zealand’s cultural, economic and military allies?

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...