Guy Rundle
Correspondent-at-large
Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
If the UK election exit polls are correct, Boris Johnson will get the biggest Tory win since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.
Its not hard to see that the Whakaari/White Island disaster haunts us now more than it might have hitherto because we are standing on the edge of inferno and death — in Sydney, in NSW, in history.
A boy on a hospital floor, doctored videos, and Boris Johnson bailing on an interview — is it all strategy, or is Britain's election descending into mayhem?
Ere we go, ere we go, ere we go! Time for an irremediably hung House of Commons and another brain-melt election in six months. Oi!
In an era where anti-Semitism is on the rise again, are we overusing the term, and thus stripping it of its impact and meaning?
Religious institutions already have enough freedom — what they want is a bill to help rebuild their dwindling congregation.
Even the Friday afternoon news vacuum wasn't enough to quash the $3.6 million defamation judgment.
There was a time when Guy Rundle couldn't get enough of Clive James' writing. Latterly, he found James' work chronically disappointing.
For a country that could once boast of leaders who subordinated their personal interests to a larger cause, it is quite a fall.
If Lambie is purporting to represent the non-elites, and Tasmania, and especially northern Tasmania, then hobbling union power is a hell of a way to go about it.
