Poor Jack Walker, probably soon to be an ex-adviser to Christopher Pyne. Not only has he and his eight Sydney mates spent the past four days in the shadow of a Malaysian noose, facing an almost certain death penalty for budgie smuggling (well, at least social death), but he has also managed to spark an entertaining debate about the merits and demerits of young political staffer, the likes of which we haven’t witnessed since the public soul searching about the kindergarten masquerading as Kevin Rudd’s Prime Ministerial office.