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.
THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFTISTS alive today who remember modernism in all its glory. Theirs was the generation who joined the Left in the 1930s and 40s: men and women who looked upon socialism as not only the future humanity had to have but would have – indisputably. For the leftists entering the political world […]
