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.
Caring more about the suffering of white farmers than that of brown people is pretty much the definition of racism.
The recent Monash Forum fiasco suggests that, beyond concrete objectives, Tony Abbott is devoted to the beau idéal of failure.
A series of attacks on Jeremy Corbyn for being anti-Semitic has drawn out decades of genuine contempt from the right.
Iannucci is a master comedy writer, no doubt, but at some point the film lapses into a Marvel comic's view of events in totalitarian Russia.
The latest cricket scandal doesn't reveal that we are obsessed with morality but rather the way sport functions in a world where politics is failing.
It seems Greens Derangement Syndrome also affects the right-wing mind's capacity to perform basic mathematical/psephological analysis.
The Republicans have lost a special election in Pennsylvania on the vote of the white working class. If the Democrats seize this moment, they could take back the House.
And so the rather plush rehabilitation of James Packer begins.
The real ugliness of the South African farmer question, built on spurious figures and indifference to non-white suffering, is that its cynical explanation is better than its ideological explanation.
The overt racism of this campaign is a new low, but will it help keep Dutton in his seat at the next federal election?
