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Order Paper: The ignorant don't know conservative history

The fuss over Jim Bolger's "repudiation" of 'neoliberalism' shows both an ignorance of history but also an ignorance of the entire conservative political tradition in New Zealand politics. 

Fri, 28 Apr 2017

A group of apparently unconnected things in the past week have struck me as having quite a lot to do with each other. 

First: Former prime minister Jim Bolger was hailed as having repudiated neoliberalism. It was a strange thing to claim, considering Mr Bolger has never really pudiated

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