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More than one way to ruin a country

New Zealand needs to look to Switzerland

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

The shock of the brutal religious fanaticism of the Taliban again abroad in Afghanistan, partly at least to the shame of the Biden administration, is also a reminder to us. There is more than one way to destroy a country.

The invasion of the coronavirus has given political overlords in the West more opportunity than at any other time to trample on democratic freedoms.

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