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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.
WOULD THE REAL Labour Party please stand up. Right now, I’m looking at four Labour Parties, each one quite startlingly different from – if not actually competing with – the others. The key question, therefore, is: Will the ideas and actions of each of these divergent parties enhance or diminish the chances of “Brand Labour” winning the 2023 general election?
