THE LATEST POLL is perplexing. While superficially reassuring to the National Party, it offers scant evidence that the Centre-Right vote is doing anything other than churning. It needs to be growing. For Christopher Luxon and his advisers, the most pressing challenge is to understand why the middle class isn’t moving in National’s direction. One more-or-less […]

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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...