The Devil's Right Hand

Monday column

Aotearoa is not America. But it is home to a kind of person who will declare with great vehemence and maybe even furious wrath don't call my country Aotearoa.

Such a person likely finds succour in the rhetoric of such a politician as Simon O’Connor.

He offers the same thing you’ll get  from people like Plunket and Slater, the phrasing and framing all conf…