by James Allan, Daily Sceptic:

One of the last Covid thugs of the democratic world is in deep, deep do-do. I refer to Canada’s Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party. (Note to readers: in Canada the Liberal Party is and has always been a Left-of-centre party, these days a lot Left-of-centre. Here in Australia the Liberal Party has historically been Right-of-centre, though a fair few current Liberal Party MPs of the Black Hand Gang persuasion – I’m looking at you Simon Birmingham and most all of the remaining partyroom MPs who voted to defenestrate Tony Abbott in favour of Malcolm Turnbull – would much prefer the name ‘Liberal Party’ to be pronounced with a heavy Canadian accent.  That’s one of the key underlying difficulties for Peter Dutton, the many, too-many wets in caucus who are incredibly out-of-step with the party base.  We saw how that worked out for the Tories in Britain, didn’t we?)