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Chaos theory

What a fascinating board game the National Party would make these days – something between Snakes and Ladders and Cluedo, only with no ladders and a preponderance of daggers pre-inserted.

A canny beltway entrepreneur could also make a tidy sum from devising a real-time online flow chart showing who in the party has dobbed who in to whom, for what and with what result.

You’ve got to hand it to leader Judith Collins. It must be very hard to oppose the Government’s proposed criminalisation of hate speech with a straight face, while making mild-dislike speech a sackable offence in her own caucus.

There should have been an “I

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