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Generation gap widens and political chaos slips through
The democratic world's determined campaign to render itself ungovernable continued on Friday.
Annabel Crabb is a regular columnist, TV host and leading political commentator.
The democratic world's determined campaign to render itself ungovernable continued on Friday.
A hallmark of the civilisation is that we are capable of entertaining complexity, even though simplicity is so seductive.
The spotlight can do odd things to people.
You see, crisis is a matter of context, writes Annabel Crabb.
I learned nothing that surprised me apart from the fact a group of grown women call themselves the "Honey Badgers".
So many large organisations appear to have put their affairs into the hands of a semi-distracted chimp.
Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first Chancellor, is usually credited with the famous remark likening laws to sausages; for peace of mind, one should never see either being made.
Before we lapse back into a state of national ennui, let's perhaps revisit a few basics.
Whenever a politician in this country announces their retirement for family reasons, one of two things happens.
An accountant shamed on the world stage. A Department of Finance viral video. The financial services world is highly unlikely to let these slights go unavenged.
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