Although to my current taste, Medieval Death Bot is one of the funniest things on Twitter right now, Corbyn Warnings is running a close second. Corbyn Warnings is a parody account playing on the drumbeat of hostile Warnings by MPs, Labour ‘grandees’ and former leaders who have spectacularly failed, if the polls are to be believed, to warn the UK party’s membership and supporters against the allegedly unelectable Islington North MP, Jeremy Corbyn.

Early on Saturday night 31 January a row of largely middle-aged and completely white men in grey suits on Sky News, before a vote had been counted, made ‘predictions’ about the outcome. They came to an intriguing level of consensus. It didn’t matter whether it was Graham Richardson, David Speers or Craig Emerson – the LNP was going to win about 50 seats, Labor about 35, and Campbell Newman would probably be defeated.

Magna est veritas et praevalet Great is truth, and mighty above all things I welcome the decision of Justice Bromberg in Eatock v Bolt, delivered in the Federal Court in Melbourne on Thursday. It is, to my mind, a just decision, and not just in law. Predictably, of course, the decision has not been welcomed […]