RODNEY HIDE’S OPEN LETTER to David Seymour exposes a critical rift in conservative ideology: the Individual versus the Community. Hide’s willingness to publicly denounce Seymour’s stewardship of ACT over vaccine mandates indicates the politically dangerous all-or-nothing character of this polarising ideological position. In its essence Hide’s argument elevates the rights of the individual above all […]

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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...