Poor Kevin Rudd, standing there in front of Twitter, holding up his little bot-infested petition.
I was going to write a witty, scathing article but there’s no sport in it anymore. As the great Malcolm Tucker once said disparagingly of an MP, ‘this is like a clown running across a minefield!’
The truth is, in order for Rudd to deal with his vast personal failure as a political figurehead, he has decided to take the Stalin approach and destroy the free press.
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