JANE CLIFTON: The Book of Judith - A Biblical Reckoning

JANE CLIFTON: The Book of Judith - A Biblical Reckoning
Jane Clifton
If all the National MPs who just weeks ago said “over my dead body!” to the prospect of a Judith Collins leadership were taken literally – if not laid end to end -  we’d be calling National’s team a mortuary rather than a caucus. And by some lights, that isn’t far from the truth, politically speaking. By Thursday, it also threatened to become a live enactment of 10 Green Bottles, with retirements and rumoured retirements growing at a covid-esque rate of transmission. And no wonder they’re off....

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