Ben Roberts-Smith is shaping the battlefield. Or as he sees it, he’s reshaping it. No one should be surprised. It’s what soldiers are trained to do.
“We, the people” increasingly deal with each other not through parliaments or church halls but through a digital space whose profits depend on us fighting each other.
Old TV hands talk of those who “break through the glass”. With this ridiculous talent, there was no glass.
After all the Pythonesque pomp of the coronation, Charles and Camilla will wake up to the reality that they are doomed to preside over a shrinking realm.
