Philip French

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@Peter_Fitz Who could ever have doubted ‘Pig Iron’ Bob’s racism, or his stance on the subject of WAP? In fairness to him, he was a creature of his generation and, by the 60’s, an anachronism.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@RosieTo08688073 @SamCKx I think it’s a bit of a ‘toss up’ as to which is the most corrupt organisation, FIFA or the US administration! As evidenced by the ‘Africa Map’ debacle in Brazil, corruption in the latter has now become ‘structural’, destroying the State Department.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@MikeCarlton01 @Kate_McClymont Absolutely bloody marvellous stuff. Amazing, but unsurprising I suppose, that these extreme right wing apparatchiks think no one else will ever get wise to their grotty schemes.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@cheryl_kernot Wooden performance notwithstanding, I hope Ben succeeds in holding off the challenge from the extreme right.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@cheryl_kernot Interesting reaction. My first thought was robot/apparatchik.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@cheryl_kernot Maxine will always be remembered as a hero for ‘liberating’ that seat. Albo, on the other hand, is a good public servant, and the most decent and competent PM we’ve had for quite a while, so I kinda hope he continues to hold his seat.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@oriettamusic Linda, by a ‘country mile’!

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@cheryl_kernot @tanya_plibersek Here’s hoping you, Ms Plibersek, make, it to the ‘top job’, sooner rather than later. You seem to have all the qualities needed in a fitting successor to Gough Whitlam, our greatest ever PM.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@MikeCarlton01 Gough must be turning in his grave at the ALP’s betrayal of his education policies, both secondary and tertiary.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@RosieTo08688073 @markbouris @DHughesy …. and please save us from any more bulls**t about the ‘unfairness’ of taxing capital gains at the full rate, from Hughes, Bouris or anyone else. The so called ‘discount’ was a Howard/Costello rort, and should have been reversed a long time ago.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@Davspen2016 @Peter_Fitz Yep, and if she and the party to which she belongs continue moving to the right, their irrelevance will continue to grow.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@RosieTo08688073 @MikeCarlton01 Coincidence, surely ….

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@JaneCaro Same reason Trump gets ‘nasty and personal’ when confronted with facts and arguments which contradict his ideology, and which he can’t refute in a rational manner. They resort to abuse and insults in the hope of intimidating and ‘shutting down’ their adversaries.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@SatPaper @JaneCaro More a list of grievances and objects of hate, than a list of ‘talking points’. Hanson might be a poor thinker and speaker, but the NPC and journo’s did themselves no favours by submitting so meekly to her abuse.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@JaneCaro Good on Ms Meloni for calling it out, rather than glossing over as a ‘misunderstanding’. There is more than misogyny here, as the perpetrator is both dangerously insecure and angry.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@JaneCaro Shocking, a whole nation of women who were promised help by Trump, left to the mercies of the world’s most cruel and barbaric regime. Shame on America, and the rest of the world for ‘selling them out’.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@MikeCarlton01 @crikey_news The press gallery replicated their Washington counterparts, failing to stand up to the abuser as a group, in support of their colleagues. If Hanson continues to abuse individual journalists, ignore questions and refuse civil engagement the press should ignore her.

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@MikeCarlton01 Agree also, but the UK Reform experience says we can’t be too complacent.

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@IL0VEthe80s A pity, as it’s very funny

[Philip French @PhilipFrench5]

@Sofia50020Sofia Too easy! TV remote control should not exist in that form. In those days, ‘remotes’ were connected to the TV set with a cord.