For some of us, being in lockdown is not that far removed from fabulous. For others, it is FUBAR from beginning to end. Depending on which group you belong to, Covid-19, lockdown, “living in a cave”, and the Government’s handling of the pandemic, will be viewed through radically different lenses.

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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...