All that was required to defend Plunket from the attack of his radical cultural foes was a united capitalist front. Plunket’s MediaWorks bosses and Magic Talk Radio’s advertisers had only to stand firm against the demands of the “woke” and their threats would be exposed as hollow.

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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...