Quotation for Today, Sunday 3 May

Knauf and I would probably agree that Cullen’s management of the country’s economy was epic in New Zealand terms but where Knauf pictures this achievement almost like a Cecil B.DeMille film, historians may well judge it had more in common with the great epics of decline detailed by John Milton or Edward Gibbon – a regime increasingly obsessed by its own hubris and limping to a fall.

Paul Moon on Michael Cullen and Jason Knauf’s gushing opinion piece in adoration

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