[...] And what would these midwives of a better tomorrow not hazard for its safe delivery? What rights would they not curtail? What dissenting minds would they not subdue? What protesting tongues would they not cut out? What unconvinced hearts would they not stop forever? To force open the Gates of Paradise?

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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...