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The wages of spin

Order Paper: Gesture politics may come off self-indulgent and solipsistic, bordering on narcissism.

Thu, 16 Nov 2017

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

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