Having bagged Tony Jones below, let me know praise him for a good interview with former Bush speech writer David Frum and analyst Harlan Ullman.
Despite implying last night that the plan in Iraq was to install a democracy, Jones managed to hit on the real ‘plan’ in his discussion with these two, namely, to install […]

No wonder we have trouble having honest debates when the media ask questions like this. Here was Tony Jones with Alexander Downer on Lateline last night:
TONY JONES: Now, Mr Downer, this was a terrible accident by the look of it. But the terrible uncertainty about the outcomes in Iraq must lead you in quiet […]

John Howard, control freak.
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The interesting thing about Kenneth Clarke running for the leadership of the British Conservative Party is that he is, apparently, going to run on an anti-war platform:
Buoyed up by attracting the backing of Michael Portillo and Tim Yeo - who retired from the race to back him - and the continuing unrest in Iraq, Mr […]

Crikey has started a BlogWatch item you might be interested in:
Today we’re starting a new daily Crikey feature – Blogwatch – where we’ll try to find some of the more interesting stuff floating around in that great wide world of information known as the blogosphere. There may be millions of blogs in the world, but […]

Haircuts, drinks, food, hotels, deliveries: just some of the things you will routinely tip for in America. Can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to be back in a country where it isn’t an issue.
Mind you, the rise of tipping might be one of the consequences of Mr Howard’s proposed IR reforms, if […]

ELSEWEHRE: Gianna makes an interesting point.
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It’s easy, as liberal democrats, to condemn the comments by Bronwyn Bishop and Sophie ‘Petro-Georgiou-is-a-terrorist’ Panopoulos about stopping Muslim girls wearing headscarves to school. Panopoulos has already shown herself to be an alarmist who can’t stand people disagreeing with her, and Bishop will grasp at anything that might get […]

Clearly my son watches too much television. He was flicking through a book about South Australia yesterday and pointed out to me, quite proud of himself for the joke, that South Australia not only has a Simpson Desert but a Flanders Ranges.
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In some ways, the situation in Afghanistan is sadder than that in Iraq. The US-come-coalition invasion there in the wake of the 9-11 attacks was a justified action and actually started to achieve some good results, including the removal of the Taliban and the destruction of an important base of operation for al-Qaeda-like terror […]

Very telling point scored by John Howard:
The Prime Minister launched a stinging attack on Opposition Leader Kim Beazley for not supporting the Government’s position.
Dubbing him “the newly resurrected Kim Beazley the Third”, Mr Howard said Labor had changed its policy position on almost every key area in the nine-and-a-half years of his Government.
Yes, nothing worse […]