Big Sister ♥ Jane

There is every chance Quadrant readers were cautioned by parents to select their friends with care because the world would judge them by the company they keep: associate with bigots or nitwits and people will think you are cut from the same cloth.

It’s sound, simple advice whose benefits extend well beyond childhood — advice eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant might be well advised to consider. She is, after all, a civil servant who thrives on the public teat to the tune of almost $445,000 a year, plus taxpayer-funded jaunts to the World Economic Forum for confabs with fellow members of the global elite who know, and know absolutely, what the little people of our planet should be allowed to say, read, watch, drive, emit and eat.

Some might think that turning up at Davos, let alone buying into its agenda, indicates a very definite worldview, but as the alpine gabfest draws participants from both sides of Australian politics it would be difficult to claim eKaren is…