This old house “Squat Morrison” is trending, as Australians gleeful at the thought of the departing prime minister having to navigate the brutality of the rental market wonder aloud when he’s going to depart Kirribilli House, where he’s apparently continuing to stay despite being dethroned over a week ago.
Morrison, like Tony Abbott and John Howard before him, broke convention by making Kirribilli his primary residence during his time as PM. Abbott was relatively swift in getting out, but as it turns out Morrison (who has started the process of getting out of the Lodge, to be fair …) probably has a bit of time before it becomes a serious issue. Howard took 16 days to even start the process of getting his stuff out.
Murphy’s Law Guardian Australia’s political editor Katharine Murphy has largely turned her talents to analysis in recent years, but the former recipient of the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism showed this morning that she can can still pull off a scoop. She was the first to report that newly elected Nationals leader David Littleproud spent the morning on the phone with an erotic cartoonist from Italy.
You see where we’re going with this. Murphy is the latest in a fairly long line of commentators and politicians to tag @Albo, Italian adult comic artist, when they mean to tag @AlboMP, ALP leader. Extra marks for Murphy’s profoundly not mad response when people pointed out her mistake.
Front page of the day An absolutely savage effort from The Yorkshire Post. Beneath the text “Lockdown looked very different inside and outside No. 10” sits a collage of “people who stayed home to save lives”. But zoom out a little and you get an image of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson charging his glass at one of the many parties he and his staff held during the UK lockdowns in 2020 and 2021:
The not so good burgers America’s reliance on litigation as a stand-in for proper corporate regulation certainly has its drawbacks. But occasionally, just occasionally, it gives us something as beautiful as the lawsuit filed late last week in the eastern district of New York. The class action alleges that ads for Wendy’s and McDonald’s exaggerate the thickness and width of the fast food chains’ beef patties, as well as the amount of toppings used. The lawsuit cites one McDonald’s ad in which the beef patty extends all the way to the edge of the bun, comparing it with the actual burger where it does not.
The lawsuit also features some of the most magnificently ugly photos of some of the most dismal and underwhelming food you can imagine. A soggy dispiriting metaphor for late capitalism if ever there was one.
So this is what you’re promised:
And this is what you get:
The same law firm, hungry for nothing but justice, also recently went after Burger King alleging its burgers were 35% smaller than its ads made out.
Green election day ABC psephologist extraordinaire Antony Green replies to seemingly every conspiracy-pushing crank on Twitter, and generally he’s fairly civil. But he exhibited no such patience when dealing with “funny” account @AnthonyGreen420 (one of those parody accounts which gets unaccountably popular by doing an unfocused series of jokes and attaching them to a popular figure). Replying to a post in which the parody account called Macnamara the “most intense 3-way he’d seen since his gap year in Amsterdam”, the real Green was curt:
It was a reply so savage it bodied the account out of existence:
