Who would have predicted that Prince Philip’s knighthood would have been marked by a serious tactical blunder?
That wasn’t the knighthood. It was the commentariat overplaying its hand and revealing that it would do anything to topple the Abbott government. Like Lenin’s ‘useful idiots’, some normally sensible commentators and politicians joined this beat-up.
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