Apologies for starting this column with a tweet, the bathroom graffiti of our age, double apologies for it containing a profanity, albeit with an asterisk fig leaf, and triple apologies for it belonging to a labour M.P.

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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...