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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 Zealand, Chris Trotter lives in Auckland with his wife and daughter. He has created the Bowalley Road blog as an outlet for his more ruminative and elegiac impulses and named it after the country road that leads to the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life.
With the new ideology firmly embedded in all the places that matter, the inevitable question arises: How is a party like National or Act to get a fair hearing? Will they, too, have to demonstrate their loyalty to the new regime by silencing and/or purging all those unwilling to pay lip service to the new orthodoxy?
