The beliefs and values of Helen Clark’s and John Key’s Baby-Boom generation are most unlikely to be replicated in the political elites composed of Generations X, Y and Z.

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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...