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Love to see conservative Parliamentary Dignity Defenders wilfully ignoring the disorder caused by their govt mocking the legitimacy of Parliament by introducing and debating a malicious self-serving lie, and then swooning when that outrage was treated with the scorn it deserved

Current reading v good and notable for being set during the Liz Truss premiership, a period unlikely to rival the Napoleonic Wars as a literary backdrop. goodreads.com/book/show/2078…

Worked in NZ Parliament for many years pre-telly, then in two televised parliaments in Canberra and Melbourne, & observe pretty closely now, and have seen no such change. It has always been a stage, cameras on or off. This 👇 is a very bad idea.

What’s most glaringly missing in this Govt—aside from basic decency—is that wise old staffer who says things like: “We can’t badge it the ‘No BS Budget’ ffs. We just spent a week slamming acronym-swearing and that tagline just admits every other budget was BS”.

Govts are typically deep into the third term before they start producing Budgets this lacklustre and bereft of ideas.

My wise old boss and giant of the Australian Senate Robert Ray told me during the John Howard years that you can tell always how well a Budget's landed based on whether they're talking about it or us the next day.

Only working for the man counts as work for Seymour. What an arrogant twerp.

The Goff news sent me down a Munich ’38 rabbit hole. 6 books in, biggest takeaway: as much as a lesson in appeasement, it’s a brutal parable about wishful thinking, both the most common affliction in politics & the hardest to treat, surrounded as leaders often are by sycophants

By God, how I tire of this outfit's parasitic mimicry of rights language in service of reactionary ends.

When any newsaper, let alone thia newspaper, outs the richest man in the world, let alone this man, as an out of control deadbeat junkie, you have to imagine they have sources, fact-checkers & lawyers lined up & down the block. No paywall. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/…