Politics as Super Rugby

I've seen a wool store, and you, Gaslight Room of New Plymouth’s Coloniser Hotel*, are no wool store

ACT preens as party in waiting ahead of Election 2023, read an RNZ headline this morning.

Foregone conclusions are totally the new black in election reporting this season. The article that followed was not quite so breathless, and concluded with the reminder that in the end it’s all up to the voters to decide, but there was still plenty of lather.

Where …