Paul J. Berating

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The Spectator's long game: relitigating a referendum they already won

Flat White spins a stadium boo into a treatise on activist strategy. The real long game is the masthead's, not the activists'.

The Spectator's discovered the booing of a Welcome to Country and they've turned it into a thesis about activist long games. Mate, the long game here is finding something to write about every fortnight that lets the masthead relitigate the referendum without admitting they won it. The crowd booed, the columnist swooned, and somewhere a sub-editor cracked a tinnie.