"Some may have wondered if the political landscape today is different to the one Dirty Politics exploded onto in back in 2014. What, in the year 2026 – the year of a foreign affairs minister telling a Chinese MP to go back to where they came from – really passes for dirty work? What’s bad enough these days to actually make heads roll?" #LyricWaiwiriSmith, 2026 https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-09-2026/a-dispatch-from-the-sweaty-feverish-launch-of-nicky-hagers-new-book-dirty-work Sad that this level of political scumbaggery has gotten so normalised. #DirtyWork #DirtyPolitics #NickyHager