Dave Armstrong: Bill screws up and Andrew runs to help
(WorldNews New Zealand)

OPINION: About two years ago, I was attending a function in Queenstown after a play I had written was performed there. The wine flowed and the local MP was in attendance. I didn`t know much about Todd Barclay except that he`d just tweeted that he preferred Mike Hosking to the recently axed Campbell Live. After jokingly thanking him for missing Seven Sharp to attend my play, I found him charming and supportive. The genial young man also seemed very popular with the Queenstown chattering classes. Yet last week, in a disastrous seven days for National, Barclay resigned after the Newsroom website showed that not only had he secretly taped one of his...