Did you know there's a law of holes? It's basically this: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

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It's the down-to-earth (pardon the pun) advice the state's Liberal government could have done with over the past week.

Faced with a backlash over the Premier's impetuous defence of Christmas, the Libs doubled down and even tripled down.

There's been no apology for throwing a gagged educator and her school "under the bus", the targets of a modern-day mob.

If anything, senior Liberals have mocked the critical reaction.

Eric Abetz turned to AI to present a truly silly take, only to be met with the brutal response: "This has real 'man makes up imaginary scenario and gets angry about it' energy."

That would almost be a fair assessment of the wider drama.

It would be more accurate, though, to say the government went off half-cocked.

Some would like to think that there was a grand strategy at play, as if the people who bungled the new Spirits are capable of anything of the sort.

Perhaps it was a distraction from the public service cuts, or a lean to the right to bring back those who are favouring One Nation.

No, it really wasn't that deep.

As we reported, Jeremy Rockliff was asked over dinner by a Hobart news publisher to........

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