It’s a few years now since starry-eyed colleagues referred to Jacinda Ardern as “the Mother of Dragons” – a moniker that never really took, since the Prime Minister seemingly lacked the vengeful steel of the fantasy-fiction heroine.
But one too many decisively catastrophic opinion polls, and the Beehive has now reinvented itself as a Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones sequel, with punitive dragon squads airborne in dizzying sequence.
The rapacious orcs of the fossil-fuels industry were first to feel the fiery downdraft, with new inventory requirements and the threat of price control announced.
The dragons’ next mission will be the pitiless overlords of
