If Peter Coleman is assisting $weetie, and if Peter Cloeman was accurately quoted just after $weetie’s November dummy-spit, then there’ll be plenty of meat with the potatoes in their book. And Mr Coleman probably has plenty of NSW Liberal Party info about J-Ho. Wait & see.

Not that malignant narcissism ever stopped a successful Prime Ministership. My recollection was that Crikey (at least in the form of Mayne) thought the Diaries, for what they revealed about the Press Gallery and machinations of the ALP, were a valuable work. Though that didn’t stop them happily joining in the “Latham is insane” message that everyone else with a stake in it was desperately pushing, from Matt Price downwards. Now I miss Matt and his writing in The OO as much as anyone, but boy did he cop a bucketing from Iron Mark in the Diaries.

So if Tip isn’t going to embark on a 400+ page hissy fit about how all the nasty things J-Ho did to him why would anyone buy it? The only thing left is self-aggrandizing smugness from a Coodabeen Champion - I’ve just recovered from 11+ years of that, and I’m not going to pay for more!

Dogs are from Wentworth Park and Richmond on Friday nights.

F*ck, that’s why I keep losin’.

I, for one, would really like to know how Howard reacted once he realised he’d lost the election and his seat on the night? Did he swear, rant, break down in tears, blame Lady Muck of Goat Island, attemnpt suicide, etc, etc. The possibilities are endless and I really want to know.

which in any case won’t be released for yonks

Kim, I think I heard in passing that Costello’s book is due out in September. This is unreliable and confirmation if someone can would be good.

As for Rudd swearing in the office, you should hear me when one of my more idiotic users requests something that is both of no value and not technically feasible.

Yeah, and Bolt likes to portray it as “passion” when a conservative does it. Remember that post about Gordon Ramsey (and the F word) and how Bolt managed to accuse some places run entirely by families of “collectivist” mentality as the sole reason for their failure rather than just plain shitty management.

I wonder if he’ll play it the same way for Rudd and his apparent potty mouthedness at work.

All the insiders didn’t want anyone to know about this so closed ranks and pretended he was a loonie. Even Crikey was in on it which was disappointing.

I seem to recall that in the case of Kerry Packer, ‘expletive-ridden rants in his office when things go wrong’ were just an indication of lovable rogueishness.

Sounds like me when the server is down again.

The puerile depths to which the MSM is sinking in its attempts to find something controversial to write about Labor have moved beyond pathetic to straight out irrationality. I guess it’s all part of the madness that afflicts any institution in its death throes.

GHOST (to his lawyer): Plagiarism most foul,
As in the best it is…

Actually isn’t it more like, Forsterisms have just become fodder for workaday literary allusions? Heck, people have been making dull “Howards End” jokes at least since the days of the later, disappointing films of the Three Stooges. One can imagine that JH could have plausibly compiled a rather full scrapbook of this ready-to-hand joke, spanning his entire career.

btw, by sticking that apostrophe in there, does the book mean by “Howard’s End” the sunset of his career, or his “end” in the sense of purpose or goal?

just bein’ difficult…