The lack of political imagination on display here is truly disappointing. Is there no one in TPM with the smarts to realise that barging into the Tauranga by-election with all rhetorical guns blazing is guaranteed to attract massive publicity?

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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...