In refusing to rule out working with NZ First after the election, Christopher Luxon will have a dark, awkward shadow hanging over every discussion about what a centre-right government might look like, argues Peter Dunne
The extraordinary ruling by the High Court that has forced the Palmerston North City Council into allowing a Feminist group (Stand Up For Women) to meet and discuss the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill is as brutal as lemon juice on a schism paper cut.
The Palmerston North City Council had banned SUFW from using one of their venues, the Free Speech Union stepped into challenge that and the High Court delivered the kind of legal smack down that would make Harvey Weinstein weep.
It should never had gotten to this but the vitriol, the subjective wounds masquerading as legitimate risk and the malice of the woke mob forced it.