The tests are in – and Kev’s caught bots

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. It is difficult to imagine the size of ego required to think that hurt feelings about mean headlines warrant the complete annihilation of a media company millions of Australians choose to pay for every year – but then, politicians are not normal people.