The time has come to choose. Do you hold firm to common sense and believe strongly in the rule of law? Or do you believe the world is a better place running out of control on raging emotion? 

Chances are, if your politics are centre-right, or certainly right of the loony left, the more wide-eyed you may find yourself at the sheer madness of the direction we appear to be heading in. 

Anyone who is not on the fringe left – or who doesn’t work at the(ir) ABC – has been gobsmacked and appalled by the treatment of Christian Porter over recent weeks.