Shock jock


US 08: Getting under Hillary’s (wrinkly) skin

Stop the presses: 60-year-old Hillary Clinton has wrinkles. The Democratic hopeful’s crinkly visage was stretched across the front of The Drudge Report yesterday, every laugh line and frown furrow enhanced by a combination of bad light, freezing cold, fatigue and powdery foundation.

Mungo: Howard’s decline and fall, the final instalment

In the final extract from “Poll Dancing: The story of the 2007 Election”, Mungo MacCallum looks back to Christmas 2006 when the political playing field seemed to have shifted.

Mungo: Garrett, Abbott and a week of blunders

Tony Abbott only made one mistake last week: he got out of bed. The string of blunders that flowed from this indiscretion kept the punters amused for a solid couple of days and were far harder to gloss over than Garrett’s jocularity, writes Mungo MacCallum.

And what’s Steve Price doing in the Chairman’s Lounge?

There might still be three weeks to go before polling day but it’s clear which yarn will win the “biggest campaign beat up” award – step forward shock jock Steve Price, writes Stephen Mayne.