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A question of etiquette

October 11, 2009 – 3:50 pm

I’ve just read that Andrew Bolt (and many of his commenters, by the looks of it) are unhappy with how David Marr treated him on Insiders this morning (if you didn’t see the show, you need to watch this segment to see what he’s unhappy about).
Now I need to ask a question about etiquette. Let’s [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Andrew Bolt, David Marr | Tagged , | Comments (42)

Are we all mental health professionals now?

September 3, 2009 – 10:07 am

Commentary on the psychological make-up of politicians is nothing new, but there’s been a fresh round of it in the past week. It was kicked off by Brendan Nelson, who said this to Peter Hartcher about the man who replaced Nelson as leader of the opposition:
Yet the former medical practitioner feels the need to diagnose [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Also posted in Miranda Devine | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

What next – “golliwog”?

March 11, 2009 – 10:06 am

We’ve had Piers’ ruminations on “The Dark Continent”, and Andy using the word “culled” to describe the effect of abortions on people in the third world (as if they were animals), and then here at Crikey itself I was more than a little surprised to read the concluding sentence (and the accompanying headline) in Guy [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Comments (13)