Ran all the way home

Given Tony's likely distraction with Saturday's final, I figure this may be a good opportunity for this little pig to step back into the fray. In the time since my last post I've spent a lot of time on trains and buses in Europe, including sleeping on a platform or two, and in the past week have moved myself back into ye olde Sydney town, semi-permanent like.

Mark Latham, naturally, is all the news, and the smh ran the following headline on page four today, "Battering for labour but Beazley bouyant", reporting that according to surveys, 'one in three Australians report less inclination to support Labor,' and that 'fourteen percent ... say they now think more negatively of Mr Beazley.'

Now, this little pig has two opinions about this, and the "Latham Diaries Stuff" in general. The first is that I hope the Labor party, and Big Kim, takes a huge beating, because as I see it this is the only way to shake up the party and turn them into a viable alternative to the Coalition, which at present they are anything but. The second is that it's a shame that there isn't a volume from someone on the other side of the divide to help people understand that what Latham describes can be analogous to modern politicians in general, not just the ones Latham has chosen to lambast. Naturally, I haven't read the book, probably won't. Will wait for the tv movie instead.