This will be the last column I write about Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister. In over a quarter of century in politics, I never came across a more cynical and opportunistic leader. Never. From his exploitation of religion outside Canberra’s beautiful St John’s church to his abandonment of the emissions trading scheme having asserted climate change is the greatest moral issue of our time, to his volte face on border protection, to his epiphany on gay marriage, Rudd has become a political weather vane which spins as fast an aircraft’s propellor.