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Deliberately promoting decline

In New Zealand, a once great nation is being trashed

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

31 October 2020

9:00 AM

In the 1980s in Britain, Andrew Neil, editor of the Sunday Times and publisher of this magazine, drew attention to the emergence of what was referred to as a barbaric underclass, a ‘social tragedy of Dickensian proportions… characterised by drugs, casual violence, petty crime, illegitimate children, homelessness, work avoidance and contempt for conventional values’.

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