This is at the PM's personal request.

No disrespect to the dead, injured or their families but I think this is a bit much.

Our time will come. pic.twitter.com/VAr9rAdA0f

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 15, 2019

Given that the alternative to Johnson was Corbyn's anti-Semitism and alignment with Islamist causes, the British Muslim Council should apologize for its reference to "oven-ready" anything.

Corbyn's essay includes such marvels as:

The media attacks on the Labour party for the last four and a half years were more ferocious than ever – and of course that has an impact on the outcome of elections. Anyone who stands up for real change will be met by the full force of media opposition.

The party needs a more robust strategy to meet this billionaire-owned and influenced hostility head-on and, where possible, turn it to our advantage.

There's not a lot of voting billionaire media owners Jeremy, but plenty of pissed off working people who've had a gutful of lectures.

Titania McGrath has it sussed.

Written by Megan MacKenzie, Professor of Gender and War at the University of Sydney and published by ABC News.

Growing up in Moose Jaw, Canada, it never occurred to me that some people didn't know what truck nuts were.

For all you city-slickers, truck nuts (or truck nutz, depending on your preferred provider) are crafted testicles designed to hang from the back of your truck. You're welcome.

What's the link between Australia's politicians, truck nuts and big bush fires?

PHOTO: Trucknuts (Wikimedia)

The answer to this question might be the key to overcoming the global climate crisis, so buckle up.

Trucks and fast cars have long been understood as symbols of wealth and masculinity. Truck nuts just added a ball-shaped exclamation point to this statement.

But driving a big truck has been used to convey more than manhood.

There's a history of people coal rollin' or retro-fitting trucks so they burn more diesel and produce heavy plumes of black smoke.

Consuming fuel and producing smoke are a way to both signal hyper-masculinity and an open distain for environmental concerns. A smoky middle finger to environmentalists, if you will.

There are entire Instagram pages dedicated to coal rollin', with some drivers making a sport out of blasting smoke at bikers, protesters, Asian-made cars (called "rice-burners"), unsuspecting female pedestrians and hybrid cars.

Here's where truck nuts and coal rollin' become helpful in understanding why (mostly white male) political leaders like Trump, ScoMo and Albo champion fossil fuel extraction even as the country literally burns and in the face of overwhelming science regarding the climate crisis.

Put simply, fragile masculinity might be the biggest obstacle to real climate action. Masculinity has been associated with fossil fuel consumption, extraction, and burning for decades.

PHOTO: Leaders like Donald Trump and Scott Morrison champion fossil fuel extraction despite the scientific evidence. (AP: John Minchillo)

Who are our biggest climate deniers?

Cara Daggett uses the concept of "petro-masculinity" to describe the ways that fossil fuel extraction has historically been used to fuel western development and provide world leaders with power and a sense of manliness.

Leaving fossil fuels in the ground symbolises a loss of power and money. Some male leaders see real climate action as a threat to power and to profit, through extraction and exploitation of the environment.

Male resistance to climate action has bipartisan support. Any hope that the Labor party might offer climate policy alternatives the Liberals went up in smoke in the past few months as Anthony Albanese announced he doesn't want to phase out coal, but somehow wants to distribute the effects of climate change across Australia (as if climate change is like pizza slices at a party rather than a crisis that very much impacts regions differently).

Researchers in Norway also found what they call a "cool dude effect" when it comes to climate change.

PHOTO: 'I don't believe in global warming' art. (Twitter)

They show that white conservative men, especially those that think they understand the science of climate change, are the biggest climate deniers and the least likely to be moved by further research.

There are multiple examples of 'cool climate dudes' and petro-masculinity, including "right wingers…going crazy about meat", by embracing diets called "the carnivore" or "the caveman" at the same time that vegans are belittled as "soyboys" and "beta males".

Animal agriculture is the second largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas emissions and researchers says plant-based diets are best for the environment and for our health.

Yet, a recent Twitter poll had 45 per cent men report that their biggest barrier to a vegan diet was social stigma.

In her incredible article, Victoria Galiardo-Silver concludes, "fragile masculinity says meat is manly".

This researcher is united in the conclusion that white conservative men have been the ones with the most power in western countries and they have the most to lose by efforts to change long standing practices and structures, including those associated with the environment.

We must shift the way we see world leaders responding to the climate crisis. They are not ill-informed or ignorant, they are just fragile and anxious. We can help them recover.

Three things could happen

Three things could happen if we made this shift in our thinking.

First, it would be easier to treat fossil fuel extraction and climate denialism as a pathetic expression of petro power and masculinity.

Second, this shift to calling out fragile leaders would allow us to treat climate denialism as a form of delicate resistance, a desperate clinging to power in the face of efforts to dramatically change environmental practices.

Third, it would be easier to see through the ways that virility is linked to combustion and consumption (think "drill baby drill") and environmental protection is pitted against economic development and "real" jobs for (mostly white) men, like mining.

We know that more research won't convince some politicians of the need to make big changes when it comes to the climate. So, let's hit these guys where it hurts, in the metaphoric truck nuts.

We need to disentangle the way that environmental degradation has been associated with masculinity and call out world leaders who are not addressing the climate crisis for what they are: pathetic, weak, and afraid.

Megan MacKenzie is Professor of Gender and War at the University of Sydney.

Marxist indoctrinated university graduates from wealthy families with zero life experience, can't understand how working class English people with experience of previous Labour governments can be so stupid. pic.twitter.com/UPrSKhSfYv

— Pointing at reality (@MrSonicAdvance) December 14, 2019

Former NSW Police DETSGT and avid contributor to this website Doubtful John writes:

The consorting law in New South Wales makes it a criminal offence for a person to continue to associate or communicate with at least two people who have previously been convicted of an indictable offence, after receiving an official police warning. The consorting law aims to prevent crime by disrupting organised criminal activity that establishes, uses or builds up criminal networks.

What is an official warning?

The consorting offence is found in Section 93X of the Crimes Act NSW and the legislation makes it clear that an official warning can be given orally or in writing. The warning informs the person being warned that the person with whom they are consorting is a convicted offender and that habitually consorting with convicted offenders is an offence.

An official warning ceases to have effect:

1. If the warning is given to a person under the age of 18 years – 6 months after the warning is given or
2. In any other case – 2 years after the warning is given.

A warning can be given before, during or after any consorting incident.

What does consort mean?

A person consorts with another person if that person communicates or associates with that person in any form, including by electronic or other form of communication. Some examples of consorting include meeting with, speaking to, emailing or contacting another person by social media.

Who are convicted offenders?

A convicted offender means:

a person who has been convicted of an indictable offence (disregarding any offence under section 93X). This includes interstate offences, that if occurred in NSW would be an indictable offence.

Can I be guilty of consorting even though I have never been convicted of an offence?

Yes. The offence is about associating with convicted offenders, not being a convicted offender.

Do the police have to tell me I am consorting?

No. Police have to warn you that consorting with convicted offenders is an offence. If you continue to associate with that person (the convicted offender) after you have been warned, then you may be committing an offence.

After a warning has been issued, New South Wales Police Force may provide information in writing to a person, relevant to a consorting warning to or about the person.

Crimes Act 1900

Section 93X Consorting

1. A person (other than a person under the age of 14 years) who:
   1. habitually consorts with convicted offenders, and
   2. consorts with those convicted offenders after having been given an official warning in relation to each of those convicted offenders, is guilty of an offence.
   Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years, or a fine of 150 penalty units, or both.
2. A person does not habitually consort with convicted offenders unless:
   1. the person consorts with at least 2 convicted offenders (whether on the same or separate occasions), and
   2. the person consorts with each convicted offender on at least 2 occasions.

93Y Defences

The following forms of consorting are to be disregarded for the purposes of section 93X if the defendant satisfies the court that the consorting was reasonable in the circumstances:

1. consorting with family members,
2. consorting that occurs in the course of lawful employment or the lawful operation of a business,
3. consorting that occurs in the course of training or education,
4. consorting that occurs in the course of the provision of a health service or welfare service,
5. consorting that occurs in the course of the provision of legal advice,
6. consorting that occurs in lawful custody or in the course of complying with a court order.
7. consorting that occurs in the course of complying with:
   1. an order granted by the Parole Authority, or
   2. a case plan, direction or recommendation by a member of staff of Corrective Services NSW,
8. consorting that occurs in the course of providing transitional, crisis or emergency accommodation.

Family member includes, for a defendant who is an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander, a person who is or has been part of the extended family or kin of the defendant according to the indigenous kinship system of the defendant’s culture.

Health service means:

1. medical (including psychological), hospital, ambulance, paramedical, dental, community health or environmental health service, or
2. another service:
   1. relating to the maintenance or improvement of the health, or the restoration to health, of persons or the prevention of disease in, or injury to, persons (whether provided as a public or private service), and
   2. that is of a class or description prescribed by the regulations.

Parole Authority means the State Parole Authority constituted by section 183 of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999.

Welfare service means a service (whether provided as a public or private service) relating to the provision of:

1. housing, employment benefits, rental assistance or other financial assistance or family support, or
2. another community welfare service necessary for the promotion, protection, development and maintenance of the well-being of persons, including any rehabilitation, counselling, drug or alcohol service

Former Labor power broker Eddie Obeid is tonight celebrating with his family and friends after serving three years in prison. @KellyFedor #9News pic.twitter.com/n8boHFANkX

— Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) December 14, 2019