All people can really rely upon is their own grit, determination and talent. Who looks, talks and takes chances more like a striver: Hipkins or Meager?

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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...