This comes across as so wrong, somehow

I think it looks really bad when journalists working for the non-political press rip into each other. There is supposed to be solidarity between us.

The distinction should be between those journalists who are employed by political parties and receive a party pay cheque at the end of the month, and those journalists who are not.

But I can’t let something like this go by without flagging it up. Kurt Sansone’s relief that the prime minister hasn’t let him down and embarrassed him further – as he sees it – is palpable.

He’s trying to convince himself, and others, that it’s all right now, that the land is just wasteland, that it doesn’t matter if the locals there are going to be deprived of their public pool, that the fact that this is going to be a shell college and diploma mill with fake students paying a fortune for the privilege doesn’t matter.

It just comes across as so wrong, somehow, and it’s not just because I don’t agree with it at all. There’s something else, which I can’t seem to pin down sufficiently to articulate properly right now. I need to think a little more about why it leaves me uneasy.