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Michael Barnes's avatar

I just don't think I could stand to reread this tale of a our own Australian trumptesque figure. For me he shall always be that figure Tom Parson's Orwell described in 1984. ""He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasm—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended."

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Darren Bloomfield's avatar

It says so fucking much about how far they’ve lurched right in 30 years that “working for Treasurer Peter Costello “ can be considered small l liberal.

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