Here in Australia our politicians have a habit of bleating about their “years of loyal service” and how they need a pay raise to reward their “high performance”.

Next time your local honorable member starts off on that track, remind them of this:

Bhutto assassinated

The member for Deakin or Eden-Monaro should think themselves lucky they’re not running for office in Pakistan where, if they don’t like you, they shoot you then they blow you up. Presumably, if that doesn’t work, they make you watch endless repeats of Two and a Half Men until you rip your own eyes out of their sockets.

Running
Today is the start of a run of super-hot days here in Melbourne, so I got up relatively early and attempted a hill session. It was okay – 16 * 1 minute hills, working hard up the hills while trying to keep relatively good form and then jogging down. With warm-up and cool-down it turned out to be 12.2km.