Andrew’s right. I give in. How can I ever have been so stupid to think that I could have attracted even a zillionth of his vast popularity. Truly Bolty is the voice of the people. I am entirely insignificant. I tug at his hem. I grovel at his heel. I exist only to breathe the [...]
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I’m not normally one to comment …
This has been a tricky week. The twin towers of the blogging right have come at us, blazing and indignant, and we’re still a little way from resolving all the conflict those exchanges might imply. But no matter, we push on. A little older, but considerably wiser for recent events and flurries of angry correspondence. [...]
READ MORETurn rancid Bolt bile to something pastel
How to make Bolt palatable? How to transforn a particularly rancid little piece of dog whistle rabble baiting into something pleasing to the eye? Simple: turn it into a wordle! Even a Bolt post looks innocent, almost pretty.
READ MOREWho reads Andrew Bolt anyway?
Who reads A. Bolt’s blog ‘o bile you wonder. Mystery solved: That all makes a certain amount of sense now.
READ MOREThe credible Mr Hartigan
Just remind me, who is John Hartigan again?
READ MOREMonbiot on Bellamy and the weather
Absolutely worth a read is this from George Monbiot, taking a swing at the latest murmurs of climate change denialism arcing up presumably to coincide with deliberations in Poznan. Funny to read him take down Bellamy. In cyberspace, he says, “the response spreading fastest and furthest is flat-out denial”: The most popular article on the [...]
READ MOREThe Trig perplex
There are moments as an editor – I’ve had a few – when you realise you’ve made a bad, bad call. This happens as often through the things you miss, or stumble over, or fail to give appropriate attention to, as it does thanks to the things you do resolutely, but wrongly, on purpose. Crikey [...]
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