“So, your students are not taught to look for the qualities that unite humanity? Our capacity for empathy? For co-operation? For solidarity? They would not be taught that poverty can be overcome?”

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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...