Australia's pathetic PM reveals much about the right's effort to deny reality | Nick Cohen

From Scott Morrison to Brexiters, there is a wilful reluctance to address the truthThere are worse leaders than Scott Morrison. The "international community" includes torturers, mass murderers, ethnic cleansers and kleptomaniacs beside whom he seems almost benign. But no leader in the world is more abject than the prime minister of Australia.He cuts a pathetic figure. A leader must speak honestly to his people in a crisis. The sly tactics of climate change denial, the false consoling words that it's a scare and we can carry on as before, have left Morrison's words as meaningless as a hum in the background. Nothing he says is worth hearing. Continue reading...