JUDITH COLLINS’ FIGHT to hold together the fraying coalition that is the National Party has entered its most critical phase. The spectacle of the National leader waxing eloquent – to the point of, almost, moving herself to tears – in front of a roomful of ageing Matamata cow-cockies was dramatic evidence of how desperate the […]

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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...