Lady Macbeth's Descendants Dance Around the Cauldrons

A Virulent Strain of Inquiryitus Unleashed

The current New Zealand government has an acute case of Inquiryitus.  This is a particularly debilitating disease, with no known cure.  It's an affliction with a long history.

Medical experts have suggested that early onset Inquiryitus can be detected in Lady Macbeth's habit of rubbing at imaginary blood spots in the middle of the night.  The rubbing syndrome has developed in our modern polity into launching inquiries.  The intention is that a long, slow, glacial inquiry will rub away the scandal or controversy from human memory.

We have lost count of the number of inquiries launched by the present administration into alleged defects and scandals since it took office a mere six months ago.  Every day, new blood-spot-rubbing inquiries are announced.  Neither the announcements nor the actual glacial inquiries are of any significance any longer.

We have "inquiries" announced into mental health and addiction, Labour Party drunkenness and debauchery, historical state care abuse, high power prices, Pike River Mine entry, taxation, climate change, prisons and incarceration, and the government education system, to name but a few.

Inquiryitus is a virulent disease.