Several recent events highlight the fragile faultlines between jingoism, patriotism and national security; a fissure that the Left are desperate to crack open into a major chasm in the seemingly endless Compassion Wars.
First came Julia Gillard with a factual error in her novel ‘My Story’, in which she alters chronology in order to accuse John Howard of being ‘hairy-chested’ during the Tampa crisis.
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