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Heavy sighs over the separation of media and politics

OPINION: Can you be an impartial political interviewer if your partner is a cabinet minister, MP, or party chief of staff?

NBR senior journalist Maria Slade speaks with Calida Stuart-Menteath.

Maria Slade Wed, 09 Nov 2022

The theory of six degrees of separation has it that anyone on the planet can be connected to anyone else via just five other people.

In these small but perfectly formed isles it’s probably more like one-and-a-half degrees, and if you boil that down to the political and media classes, we’re

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