Like a bear that couldn’t stand his hibernation a moment longer, Winston Peters has emerged in the middle of winter roaring. At the New Zealand First AGM he mauled his former coalition partner, the cycle bridge, the vaccine rollout, the National opposition and confusingly ‘ngati woke’ – by which I think he means the maorification of everything, in particular, the penchant for government bodies to use ‘Aotearoa’ over ‘New Zealand’.

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My debut novel is available at TrossPublishing.co.nz. I have had my work published in the Australian Spectator, the New Zealand Herald and several on-line publications. One of the only right-wing people...