Winston Peters has every reason to be aggrieved. The protesters who turned up outside his house earlier this week crossed a line. Every citizen, be they a Minister of the Crown or street sweeper, has the right to return to their home and family in the confident expectation of being left in peace. There is a public world, where politics takes place; and a private world, where it doesn’t – unless it is invited in. The pro-Palestine activists who turned up on the Minister’s doorstep arrived without an invitation.
