The wages of spin
Order Paper: Gesture politics may come off self-indulgent and solipsistic, bordering on narcissism.
Order Paper: Gesture politics may come off self-indulgent and solipsistic, bordering on narcissism.
Tom Scott had an apt take on it when David Lange’s fourth Labour government was sworn in.
The cartoonist and columnist – whose just-published autobiography I highly recommend, by the way – depicted all the ministers lining up in front of the governor-general and swearing, in unison, “We