“Australia’s far-left Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese who unseated the supposedly ‘conservative’ Scott Morrison in last year’s general election has been receiving fawning press coverage since his ascendance. Again, it is not quite as overt as the adulation that America’s major networks lavish on the craven and demented Joe Biden, but Albanese is unremittingly framed in a positive light. I sense it viscerally; the clever way the anchors massage their language whenever speaking of him; the softball questions the reporters lob at him – it congeals and pulses and reaches out to tantalise my propaganda antennae as I pass through the living room during the short window of time each morning that Elizabeth and I have agreed she can have the TV on.”