HOW CAN YOU tell when things are getting serious? When the NZ Herald is willing to devote two full pages to an exploration of the ethics of the COVID-19 Lockdown. Written by the Herald’s most-read columnist, Matthew Hooton, the exploration in question is headed: “Save lives, but at any cost? That’s [the] Prime Minister’s awful dilemma.” Hooton has spent […]

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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...