Poor Kevin Rudd, standing there in front of Twitter, holding up his little bot-infested petition. 

I was going to write a witty, scathing article but there’s no sport in it anymore. As the great Malcolm Tucker once said disparagingly of an MP, ‘this is like a clown running across a minefield!’ 

The truth is, in order for Rudd to deal with his vast personal failure as a political figurehead, he has decided to take the Stalin approach and destroy the free press.