THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFTISTS alive today who remember modernism in all its glory. Theirs was the generation who joined the Left in the 1930s and 40s: men and women who looked upon socialism as not only the future humanity had to have but would have – indisputably. For the leftists entering the political world […]

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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...