The Right has sought to portray Andrew Bolt’s support as coming solely from its own side. Yet this is the opposite of the truth.
Political ideology
Do Australians still vote along class lines?
Once upon a time, brickies voted Labour, bankers voted Liberal and the Greens were but a twinkle in Mother Earth’s eye. But have things really changed? Possum Comitatus looks at the data.
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What dating site stats reveal about political ideology
Online dating service OkCupid.com’s resident numbers nerd digs into its detailed user data to reveal some fascinating insights into patterns in American political beliefs and demographics.
Berg: Australian politics is drifting with no ideological anchor
Australia isn’t deeply divided along ideological lines — unlike the US — and our politics is worse off without it. Without a strong party ideology, how can policies be written? asks Chris Berg.
George Brandis: A love letter to my boss, Tony Abbott
MP George Brandis does some serious sucking up to his leader Tony Abbott, in a deep piece in The Oz about Abbott the “intellectual warrior”, a pragmatic and straight talking man of the people.
The great atheist debate
Is there an atheist schism? Ophelia Benson explores the different disagreements amongst atheists, from those who just want to not believe and shut up and those who wish to preach the atheist movement. Is there an ironic war brewing?
Just what is a fascist?
It’s an insult slung regularly at just about everyone from all over the political spectrum, but just who and what is really a “fascist”? Is it the synonymous with “Nazi”? Does it assume racism? The BBC goes in search of a definition.
Politainment: some sexy light relief from our drab lives
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s stories of sex, scandal and beautiful women make him a more entertaining, and popular, politician than most. Is Berlusconi’s burlesque the political future?
Guy Rundle: Zionists and Nazis connected. Discuss
As far as accusing Zionists of being Nazis, the past, present and future champions are other Zionists.
Crikey Says: Australia’s political parties divided again — about time!
In Australia the GFC and has redrawn the lines of engagement, pushing Liberal and Labour back into colours last seen in the great debates of the sixties and seventies, before the narrow free-market orthodoxies of the late twentieth and new 21st century drew both parties to within a hair’s breadth of each other.
Coalition leads with its ideology and gets clobbered
It’s liberating when you accept that your opponent is not acting ideologically, but politically. It frees you up to do the same, writes Bernard Keane.
