Won’t someone please think of the journalists? Since negotiations for the new government began in secret a month ago, political journalists have had nothing to go on but rumours, innuendo and scuttlebutt.

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My debut novel is available at TrossPublishing.co.nz. I have had my work published in the Australian Spectator, the New Zealand Herald and several on-line publications. One of the only right-wing people...