The devil you know
Parents are familiar with a concept known as “street angels and house devils”, and it’s as incurable in politicians as it is in little kids.
They play merry hell at home, but once they leave the domestic setting, their manners miraculously become impeccable.
That’s how come, after months of escalating trans-Tasman biffo, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrived in Queenstown last weekend with the winning suggestion of having a yarn about “these wee devils between us”.
It added to the charm that, just days earlier, a precious litter was born in an endangered Tasmanian devil colony. Australia loves these wee devils, but, like the
