So, hasn’t Eleanor Catton made a bit of a splash. In 18 months she’s gone from Cultural Golden Girl, praised by the Prime Minister as being super intelligent, to political pariah and one of those disgusting Green voters. Now notorious Old White Man Sean Plunket waded in and called her a traitor. A TRAITOR. Traitor (n): one who betrays another’s trust or is false to an obligation or duty. I’m not sure what part of Eleanor’s criticisms of New Zealand make her a traitor. Plunket’s use tends to suggest that he – or New Zealand – has some kind of ownership of Eleanor’s comments. Which ironically is exactly what she was complaining […]

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