Mike Daube


Virgin, after urging kids to binge drink, pulls ‘disgraceful’ ad

Richard Branson’s Virgin Wines and the News Limited-owned Moshtix have been forced to pull a disgraceful internet ad that glorified youth binge drinking, following a Crikey probe into its breach of 11 self-imposed advertising standards.

Rumours of the nanny state’s demise greatly exaggerated

Tony Abbott was punching below weight last night and was, as one observer noted, showing all the symptoms of the “depression of opposition”, writes Melissa Sweet.