Powerful people feel taller than they are. That’s the finding of the latest research from Washington University.
Glenn Milne
News Ltd management: Vulnerable? No. Skittish? Yes.
How skittish the mighty News Limited looks following the weird Julia Gillard-Andrew Bolt-John Hartigan interaction over that nasty little Glenn Milne column.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Stephen Mayne’s boggling chutzpah
Crikey readers have their say.
Mayne: it all goes back to Bolt’s unhinged resignation prediction
Unlike the Americans with Richard Nixon, Australia doesn’t have a contemporary history which has involved the media producing a scandal of such enormity that it forced the resignation of a Prime Minister.
Gillard versus News: it’s war
Crikey media wrap: Prime Minister Julia Gillard remains in a fierce dispute with News Limited over a column written by Glenn Milne in The Australian on Monday, just as the government decides whether to hold a media inquiry in Australia.
Political snippets: Time for Gillard to put away funny hats, fluoro vests
What do you do when your tactics are completely failing and defeat is looming?
Milne debacle: how a 16 year old story was spiked by The Oz
Glenn Milne has egg all over his face after the re-hired columnist filed an error-filled op-ed reviving discredited allegations that Prime Minister Julia Gillard had somehow been an accomplice to her one-time partner Bruce Wilson’s alleged fraud.
Political snippets: Rudd MIA on asylum seekers — but he said he would be
In Rudd’s defence we should remember what he said in his speech announcing after being challenged last year for his leadership…
Political snippets: Where are you Glenn Milne?
Bring back Glenn Milne to write politics for the Murdoch Sundays is what I say.
Why Andrew Bolt wants Julia for PM
Uh oh. Conservative journos — heres looking at you Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones — are already pushing at Julia Gillard taking over the Labor leadership. But their aims aren’t exactly honourable.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Milne and Mayne’s Walkleys return canned
A rematch between Stephen Mayne and Glenn Milne at tonight’s Walkleys has been canned, Fairfax doesn’t deliver and the ALP’s Dianne Farmer is no shrinking violet.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Flood gates, frisky cops, and junk food junkies
Crikey readers debate opening the asylum seeker floodgates, police frisking, fat taxes and some cruel irony from yesterday’s Cup.
Keane: Glenn Milne is a grub
In the weekend’s Sunday Telegraph, Glenn Milne reported a relationship between two MPs. This isn’t even news to Canberra insiders, says Bernard Keane, and it shouldn’t be news for anyone: there is no public interest.
Who dudded Dutton?
Was Peter Dutton’s preselection loss the result of a vindictive Nats agenda? Or, an attack on Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership? The real political plot is in the minds of News Ltd journos, writes Bernard Keane.
Running a flagpole up Glenn Milne. Salute.
The Government’s insistence on signage for its projects is weird and offensive, but so is Glenn Milne’s comparison of Kevin Rudd to Kim Jong Il.
News Ltd v the Rudd government … V for vendetta
The Rudd Government is exploiting a News Ltd vendetta to the hilt to avoid scrutiny and reinforce the Prime Minister’s popularity.
How stupid does Glenn Milne think we – and Andrew Charlton – are?
The Oz’s Glenn Milne is alleging that Andrew Charlton — doctor, author, PM’s economic advisor and Rhodes Scholar — was so stupid that he voluntarily gave Malcolm Turnbull the nod that his political strategy to bring down the PM was on the right track!!!?! Horseshit, says Possum Comitatus.
Political snippets: Nice try Aussie journos
The media really are going to extraordinary lengths to get Australian politicians implicated in the kind of expense account rorts that are battering the reputation of politicians in the United Kingdom. So far, no smoking gun.
The Peter Costello Food Pyramid
Warning: this cartoon may contain traces of Peter Costello…
The Costello Memoir Part 2: The “challenge” that never was
Minchin suggested I challenge Howard, but I needed to Google ‘challenge’ and told him I’d respond later, writes Walter Slurry.
