Double whammy

Sir: David Flint complains about the way the media treats right-wing leaders (‘Worth losing the base?’, 20 May) but uses exactly the same tactics himself – ridicule and truth-bending – in his articles on republicanism, in which he dishes out cheap-shots such as “republican caliphate”, “cold war communist front”, “racists” etc while trotting out the furphy about the governor-general being our head of state – presumably expecting us to conclude that either the Queen of Australia is not our head of state or that we’ve got two of them – a “fake news” double whammy.
Russell