Ok, I am still on honeymoon. And I’m not going to be blogging while we’re away. But it’s early in the morning here, my new wife’s asleep, and unfortunately someone’s just directed me to Ted Lapkin’s latest bout of stupidity, this time at The Age. In short: he “argues” (if that’s not too strong a [...]

Here’s a follow-up on the efforts to pump up Tony Abbott’s standing as a genuine guy who, once you get him away from the biased ABC and the stage-managed world of press conferences and political advertising, can connect with the true heart of the electorate. Today we get another endorsement of Tony Abbott as a [...]

The Australian is giving it to Kevin Rudd over the Oceanic Viking today, and not without reason. I tend to agree with Dennis Shanahan and Paul Kelly – of course there was a special arrangement, and for Rudd to try to hold a line of denial on that point is a ridiculous attempt at impression [...]

The Australian’s editor-at-large thinks Kevin Rudd is outperforming his opponents on the Right and the Left on the asylum seeker issue. But he also thinks Rudd’s approach has flaws that don’t acknowledge reality. Writing for the nation’s newspaper, Paul Kelly’s pronouncements carry the same inflections of wisdom, seriousness and unwavering certainty we have come to [...]