He’s a lot of things: a commentator, political PR guy, Twitter scrapper, dad, recovering alcoholic, Mongolian ambassador, soon-to-be editor of the Post, and, when Toby Manhire interviewed him back in 2019, philosophy student. Here’s what one of the most fascinating – and polarising – characters in NZ politics had to say for himself. L ife is a like a game of Trivial Pursuit, said Matthew Hooton.