‘Read the room…’ is what an exhausted Labor supporter wrote on X, having cringed at the Prime Minister’s defence of his cliff-side mansion.
Politicians are not a species of human known for their divinity, and yet – since the dawn of democracy – they have insisted on running puritanical campaigns that paint themselves as the spiritual leader of whatever is in fashion.
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