Disingenuous dog whistling and pineapple lumps

Diary of the last nine hours

8.16am

There are some mornings when Judith Collins will follow Oh hello Corin! with an exchange that reminds you she was once an actual real lawyer in the actual real world. There are other mornings when it’s all just over-the-top Panto. This is one of those mornings.

She has managed to get a news cycle churning about the name Aotearoa and this has been a…