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Silence of the Lambs

  • John Izzard
  • 3rd August 2009
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I’m not suggesting anything here that justifies the Leyton Hewitt variety of triumphalism, but boy, the report in The Weekend Australian about a judgement by Judge Peter McClellan did wonders for a flagging spirit.

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Culture catcher: 10

  • 3rd August 2009
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“Thank Dog [sic] the IPA and their fellow travelers [sic] will never have any influence in this country.”

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Harry without magic

  • Philippa Martyr
  • 3rd August 2009
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Julie Walters is winsome and heroic and red-haired; Helena Bonham Carter dresses up in corsets and does her by-now-patented mad girl routine (Hamlet, Fight Club, Sweeney Todd, etc etc etc). Michael Gambon was the cause of some serious sniggering with his faintly paedophilic visit to the young Voldemort’s ghastly orphanage.

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Culture catcher: 9

  • 26th July 2009
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“And what we find extraordinary, reading through the main New Right publication which is the journal Quadrant, is in fact how thin on the ground the New Right history is.”

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Money where mouth is

  • James Allan
  • 26th July 2009
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Mr. McClelland, when not writing reference letters for all and sundry, paints himself as a big supporter of human rights, and so wants to hand over a lot of decision-making powers currently residing with Parliament to the unelected judges.

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The Climate Caper

  • John Izzard
  • 26th July 2009
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As the parallel universe of Global Warming moves from the science-as-politics-phase, to the silly-phase, then to the religious-phase — hold on to your seats. It is going to be a rough ride.

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Keynes for our times

  • Steven Kates
  • 26th July 2009
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To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, the trouble with Keynesian economics is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. By waiting until that day of reckoning, we postpone the inevitable. But as the very meaning of the word clearly states, the inevitable inevitably arrives.

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Culture catcher: 8

  • 20th July 2009
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“There were no mandarin agents of the KGB here, no moles burrowing deep into the establishment, just fervent men and women recruited when the Soviet Union was an Australian ally to provide it with their limited knowledge of Cold War plans.”

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British elections

  • Hal G.P. Colebatch
  • 20th July 2009
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There has not been a great deal in the local media about the recent British local government and European Parliament elections, apart from the fact that the BNP got two seats in Brussels (with nearly a million votes), but there were some interesting aspects to them.

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Adventures in English

  • John Izzard
  • 20th July 2009
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The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a practicing Muslim, had no trouble using the words “terrorist” and “terrorist group”. Nor did Australia’s Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, who described the slaughter as a “terrorist bombing”.

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