Heaven knows why a respectable family newspaper such as The Australian continues to publish the pronouncements of the thinking man’s Peter Foster, Bob Carr, but it was at it again today with a piece entitled Coronavirus: Conservatives ride big government to rescue.

Beijing Bob was in full flight, demonstrating the vast breadth and depth of his intellect mentioning Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ayn Rand and — gasp — both Friedrich Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom.