http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/alan-howe/ Alan Howe is executive editor and columnist with Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper. He was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, to Royal Air Force parents, but is proudly an Australian. The Queen has been fortunate enough to meet him twice. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Malthouses-Churchill-pretensions-are-just-pie-in-the-sky/ Having Mick Malthouse as your coach is like being punished for a crime you haven’t committed. Malthouse is small-minded, bad-tempered, lacks discipline and shirks responsibility. He’s quite unpleasant. Now we know that he is a liar, and that’s a problem, because lying isn’t a mistake you make, it’s a character flaw. It is yet another pointy arrow in Malthouse’s quiver of shortcomings, joining his over-sensitivity, profanity and lack of courage. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Alan Howe) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Malthouses-Churchill-pretensions-are-just-pie-in-the-sky/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Malthouses-Churchill-pretensions-are-just-pie-in-the-sky/#item2878 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:30:41 +0000 Alan Howe | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Counterpunch-Wills-visit-a-stunt-and-a-farce/ Don’t think for a moment that last week’s visit by Prince William was anything other than a stunt by the House of Windsor or, at the least, those whose survival depend on its. Prince William was said to have been “mobbed” as he moved through Victorian country towns. The Beatles were mobbed. The future king was watched. “King of the kids” was the headline. You’ll get that during school holidays, and how fortunate was he to chance upon those? We aren’t the only nation still constitutionally tied to the old colonial master – there a more than a dozen - but we are the jewel in the crown. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Alan Howe) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Counterpunch-Wills-visit-a-stunt-and-a-farce/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Counterpunch-Wills-visit-a-stunt-and-a-farce/#item2234 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:35:42 +0000 Alan Howe | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Dysfunctional-royal-weirdos-have-no-place-in-Australia/ It’s time we shooed off our Royal parasites. I don’t want the Queen as Australia’s head of state, and nor do I want her untrustworthy, dysfunctional, self-serving family of heartless opportunists to have any say in our future. For too long this racist, sexist and unworthy institution populated by dangerously inbred Europeans has arrogantly wielded power it does not deserve – just last week it was revealed the next King of Australia campaigned against the Coalition of the Willing and sarcastically abused “his” Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Prince Charles son, His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter may be a more pleasant chap – and he may not - and, at least by royal standards, he is quite well educated. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Alan Howe) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Dysfunctional-royal-weirdos-have-no-place-in-Australia/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Dysfunctional-royal-weirdos-have-no-place-in-Australia/#item2196 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:33:44 +0000 Alan Howe | Author bios | The Punch