Anna Crabb, my new favorite journalist

How about Tony "People Skills" Abbott? Always wild and unpredictable, People Skills is going through a phase of compulsive truth telling.

Not much of this will overly trouble Kevin Rudd, who is hovering somewhere between chocolate ice-cream and labrador puppies in the popularity stakes

We'll leave the last words to the PM himself, who when asked by a reporter whether he was a toxic bore, actually responded thus: "Can I say that anyone, anyone ah, you wrote about this today Matthew, leave that where it is, the um, ah, if you are dealing with the totality of the global economic crisis, unless we have a restoration of private credit markets and private credit flows across the global economy and normal flows within Australia, then we're never dealing with the full dimensions of the problem. That was what I was saying in the Parliament yesterday. That is the reality which every government in the world is wrestling with …(answer edited for reasons of space)."