Law and order will be an issue in this year’s election, as it has been in every election since 1972. Historically, in any political scrap over crime and punishment the advantage lies with the Right. Parties dedicated to protecting the person and property of the individual citizen have far fewer qualms about following a ‘hard […]

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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...