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Quest for glory blundered

9 July 2016

9:00 AM

9 July 2016

9:00 AM

Napoleon’s judicial murder of the Duke of Enghien was summed up by either his Chief of Police, Joseph Fouche or the cynical Diplomat Bishop Talleyrand (authorities differ) as ‘worse than a crime: it was a blunder’. Malcolm Turnbull’s and his followers’ political assassination of Tony Abbott deserves a similar epitaph.

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