IT ISN’T HARD to understand why a certain type of conservative is keen to paint the Nazis as socialists. The overwhelming majority of political scientists and historians, by positioning fascism on the far right of the political spectrum, have rendered extreme conservatives Nazi-adjacent. Clearly, not a comfortable position – nor one likely to encourage ordinary […]

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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...