It truly pains me to say this, but Niki Savva was quite right (Ah! Where are those pills?) Niki Savva was quite right to criticise the Dear Leader for his bungled attempt to display the ‘common touch’.

‘Turnbull’s own actions, the miscalculations of his campaign team and the worse than expected result has meant that, for him, that critical period has been mixed,’ Savva notes, citing one instance in particular: ‘on Monday when he sat down in the Prime Minister’s office with his department head, Martin Parkinson, to get the incoming government’s brief his photo call was derailed by a little...