Author: The Daily Blog

The National Party must be feeling emboldened by Boris’s win. That win was predicated, to a great extent, on the notion that if you say things over and over, people will begin to believe you.  This is the only way I can understand the profligate and wasteful two page spread in this morning’s paper.  The navy blue ink was not quite dry – it stained my hand a little.

It is an axiom of Newtonian science that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.  This is, of course, an expression about force in the physical world. But to a great extent in recent times it seems to be about politics, and about the opposites which are simultaneously in the public view in this complex world.