Sir Roger tells me he really didn’t want to have to write anything today. He has a new pair of Wellington boots and they are chafing his heels. He just wants to put his feet up and go to that nothing box men go to where women are not allowed. Perhaps this will help you [...]

Julian Assange interviewed for 60 Minutes. Presented without comment. Come to your own conclusions (or not) – about Assange, Wikileaks, the US media, whatever.

Influential and surprising people go to bat for dealing with global warming or clean air or both – including a CIA Director and Richard Branson.

Sir Roger had thought there were just a few assassination plotters but there are many urging the murder of Julian Assange. Sir Roger unpacks the details.

The similarity between British PM, David Cameron’s, statement on government transparency and Wikileaks’ current activity is delightful but he doesn’t get it.

Sir Roger’s readers are impatient to hear what Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father of the American experiment would have said about the Wikileaks matter.

What has changed, what the fuss is really about, is that the US Government has lost the most precious protection of a professional liar: plausible deniability.

Mr Fish’s take on the true nature of representative democracy in the United States

Can’t help drawing a parallel between Jon Stewart’s speech and Obama’s at the Democrat Convention when Al Gore was nominated for President.

War criminal Howard has become more unbearable than ever. On top of his strutting arrogance is a smugness to compensate for being such an abject, public failure

Despite what some are still saying, the AEC on its website has closed off the result, declaring no seats are doubtful. Here’s how the parties finally stack up.

the Swing to “Informal”, at 1.69%, was larger than the swing to the Liberals (0.62%), or any other opposition party. But the swing to the Greens was 3.53%.

Here are some seats worth keeping an eye on tonight. These are the closest seats we found on Betfair, some on a knife-edge:

Rising today Sir Roger discovered to his interest that the odds had ticked up overnight and returned where they had begun 24 hours earlier. What can this mean?

These are seats to watch tomorrow night, according to the betting markets. The outcome – hung or not – could hinge on these two: