Let's just admit it, Clive Palmer is playing us all for fools | Lenore Taylor

It seems quite reasonable to say Palmer - the allegedly mega-rich and megalomaniac anti-politician - has taken the entire political system for a ride

In December, the US Buzzfeed editor, Ben Smith, sent a memo to staff about the appropriate way to refer to Donald Trump in stories or on social media.

He said that because Trump was operating so "far outside" the political campaigns to which the company's guidelines usually applied, and because he was saying things so obviously false, or overtly anti-Muslim, it was quite factual for reporters to call him, for example, a "mendacious racist" even though they wouldn't normally use those kinds of terms about a candidate.