I’m increasingly nervous about a prediction I made at the start of the year.
Elections are not decided, and never have been, by informed voters. To live in a democracy is to live in a tyranny of the casual, uninformed voter.
Putting up with some clutter on the lampposts is a very small price to pay for living in a country where we get to be consulted about how we should be ruled.
The primary theological difference between worship of the Christian God and worship of the underworld is that only one of those requires that you take responsibility for your actions
Middle class acceptability is a prerequisite for political success, and for the moment, for many of those seeking election on a patriotic platform, that ingredient is almost entirely lacking.
Fewer councillors means fewer Senators.
One of the basic jobs of elected officials is to see things coming. There are some candidates running in these elections who did see this problem coming, and warned about it.
Far down the ballot paper, it’s more about keeping people out than it is voting people in.
Odds and ends from the Editor.
The country is rarely able to have more than one major issue debated concurrently. Right now, immigration is the issue dominating the airwaves.
Voters, in a democracy, have a duty to themselves and their fellow citizens to be deeply skeptical.
Journalists should probably be fairer to such characters than we are.