About the same time as I was finalising the leading article for last week’s Spectator Australia, a boffin at the Age was doing a similar job for the Thursday editorial of that once proud Melbourne institution. My contribution re-committed the Speccie to, inter alia, free speech, the contest of ideas, and to the right to be offended (as I was, frankly, by last week’s grotesque cover cartoon, but I’m unlikely to sue). The