It would be in the interests of NZ if the two main parties could demonstrate the futility of minor parties attempting to implement revolutionary policies that lack majority support.

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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...