Political vivisection
The trouble with political post-mortems is that they’re never done on corpses. Those being dissected are very much alive.
The real purpose of any politician who advocates a formal review of how important issues and crises have been handled is to inflict on those who did the handling as slow and painful a public torturing as possible.
Still, it’s hard to contradict National’s call for inquiries into both the government’s pandemic stewardship and the Reserve Bank’s fielding of the downstream monetary challenges. The pandemic was not only an unprecedented experience in modern times, but one which, epidemiologists assure us, we’d better get used to having
