Not Mooch more to offer
Anthony Scaramucci had one job: kill Priebus. The Trump kids didn’t need him any more after that.
Cutandpaste
Shanghai Sam sorry on donations
Peter Fitzsimons goes in to bat for Julia Baird against the Christian ‘bovver boys’.
Shorten opens Pandora’s box
What kind of president will we get in the Labor leader’s sparkling new republic?
Salty language a bad sign
Plus, indications are that the workers’ paradise of Venezuela is heading for a Cuba-style disaster.
Queensland sacks Son of God
Never mind online bullying or fatty foods, Christmas trees are the biggest threat to kids.
Triggs, you gave us a fright
The Human Wrongs chief has finally been replaced but she’s not going away quietly.
Media Watch sees the light
Turns out Christians who actually go to church are less likely to hit their wives.
Triggs makes one more error
Gillian Triggs has told her critics to look at Hansard. Cut & Paste has obliged.
Spicer snaps, exits TrumpWorld
The White House does a Doctor Who and reboots their press briefings with a new female lead.
Di Natale sees the humour
And from The Sydney Morning Herald, a solid reminder that history does sometimes repeat.
Rudd rocks the boats
We should start sending our former prime ministers to some sort of silent monastery.
Dutton’s day in the sun
Turnbull threw Dutton out of the National Security Committee. Now he wants him to run it.
Bridge over troubled Waters
And more reasons Scott Ludlam should have kept quiet about Bob Day.
Time for Tony and Mal to make up
Tony Abbott — National Security Minister? We could think of worse options.
Ludlam successor to stay silent
Jordon Steele-John could be a great addition to the Greens … why don’t they want him?
Down like a Lud balloon?
It turns out being born in the Shaky Isles left the Greens senator on rather shakier ground.
Beware of white bads
The Spectator Australia publishes a pro-apartheid article 100 years too late.
Don Jr emails himself in foot
Trump Jr said his meeting with a Russian lawyer was about adoption … it wasn’t …
People pick plebiscite over pollies
And Malcolm Turnbull’s heiress apparent is stuck to the plebiscite she’s partly responsible for.
Mal halfway to hell on Newspolls
And British PM Theresa May is also haunted by poor polls and killer cabinets.
Trump team’s goofy G20 gaffes
Plus the president meets with Joe Trudeau, Malcolm Trumble and Teresa May …
Creationists haven’t given up
If North Korea’s vast military doesn’t get you, it has an arsenal of poisons as back-up.
Bit of Abbott never hurt anyone
Malcolm Turnbull has a new speech impediment. He can’t say the words ‘Tony’ or ‘Abbott’.
Bob’s your anti-Israel uncle?
Bob Carr wants Australia to formally recognise the state of Palestine. Which one?
Weekend at Kim Jong-un’s
And can somebody please give The New York Times a map of Australia?
Yassmin wanders off yonder
And NSW Labor looks to loosen ties with Israel despite Shorten’s pledge to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Rhiannon to the rescue
And could a face-off between Saudi Arabia and Qatar finally kill off Al Jazeera?`
Times tales of punishment
The New York Times came and saw, but the conquering bit still seems beyond it.
Ghost of Evatt haunts Greens
Will Lee Rhiannon finally toe the line or will she bring down the party’s leader?
Shorten said he’d back umpire
And one Fairfax reporter clearly respects our Peta Credlin’s sharp analysis.
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