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As I am now Another Suit on the Terrace™, this blog is on a permanent hiatus.

For your all your left-wing blogging needs, I recommend Larvatus Prodeo and those comrades listed on its sidebar.

There are a couple of errors in The Australian’s editorial tomorrow. The first:

And there is no explanation, no justification, that can excuse any nation from killing an individual who has broken the law. There never has been and there never will be.

I think they mean for. To say there is nothing that can excuse you from some thing is precisely the opposite of saying nothing can excuse you for it. The sentence as published says every nation must execute every individual who breaks the law: a ridiculous suggestion, and obviously a mistake because the editorial is strongly — and rightly — opposed to the death penalty.

The second:

The Howard Government has not questioned Singapore’s right to apply its own laws, and neither should it. We have simply, repeatedly, unavailingly begged for clemency.

With that one little word, The Australian admits what everyone knows: that it regards itself as part of the Howard Government. Or perhaps it’s just a telling typo.