Assuming that Andrew Hastie is not taken from us by the apparently imminent rapture , he may soon come up for judgment. It is very hard to imagine him leading the Liberal Party anywhere other than over a cliff.

He seems to have a sense of despair over the Liberals' lack of direction and current failure to project anything much in the way of ideas or values. But almost all of his moral or political ideas about reviving the party's fortunes seem certain to make its short- and medium-term future worse: It is, apparently, a sacrifice he is prepared to make. He asks, "What's the point of politics if you are not willing to fight for something?"

I couldn't agree more, but it depends a good deal on what that something is. A plan to drop net zero targets: to further alienate the party from

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