Schadenfreude in high places: It’s unfortunate to lose a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank. But isn’t it much, much more unfortunate to lose a Governor-General… Ah, how soon we forget in politics! And wasn’t it nice that there were pollies out there reminding us of recent history over the weekend.

The black spot on the cleanskin: So the newest MP in NSW, Member for Pittwater Alex McTaggart, owns and operates a sleazy Darlinghurst boarding house. Gosh. I wonder where you read that before? And before the by-election…