Is this the end? Confessions of an aged footballer.
It’s that time of the year when I am forced to confront my footballing mortality. Actually, that is probably overstating things. My footballing life died a long time ago. I’m not so much in the twilight of my footballing life as been plunged into its full darkness. To explain. Last Saturday was the last game…
Speirs is another who falls into the galactic ego category. But he is even more of a political arsonist than either Rudd or Abbott.
Over the last couple of decades there have been few egos in politics that could match either Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott. Rudd was your basic megalomaniac who believed he was not only the smartest person in any room, but also the smartest chap in the entire country. Maybe the world. Abbott, on the other…
Is BHP for real this time?
Look, I know we have been down this road before but is it possible that BHP actually means what it says this time and that it’s about to embark on a series of projects that will provide South Australia’s economic backbone for decades to come? Yes, we have been here before. And it’s difficult not…
Can you have joy in politics?
Is there a place for joy and happiness in politics? It’s not a question that often occurs to me. Laughter being the most disturbing sound you can hear from an MP. It never sounds quite genuine. More like the MP has been programmed by AI with instructions to “sound human’’. But like every other political…