FAST food is a delightful convenience, but to those of the tablecloth-and-cutlery generation it does somewhat cheapen the overall dining experience. Likewise, while the internet may allow access to all manner of information at an instant, this also involves a certain decline in dignity. Majestic libraries of the previous century contained their wisdom within solemn, […]

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How to get an engineless vehicle up a hill was a question salesman Dan had heard before, so he was disappointed but not surprised when customers Bob and Annette decided to keep their aging Coalition Conservative. Good for a few months yet, their big problem was how to get it repaired

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By their own estimation, so-called progressives are kind, caring and awash with empathy for all mankind. Meanjin scribbler Patrick Marlborough must have missed that memo, given his aren't-I-smart slagging of the late Bill Leak

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Donald Trump shrewdly realised the positive power of negative protests and encouraged every Democrat crank and crackpot in the land to rally outside his campaign stops. It is wrong to say leftist protests never deliver results. They do. But rarely for leftists

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My optometrist then told me I had the same problem as Hillary Clinton, whose corrective prism was so clumsily installed it was nothing less than a scandal. I was now seeing the world as did modern America’s worst presidential candidate. Great. Just great.

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Line editing was once a literary art form practised at many Australian newspapers and magazines. As may easily be deduced, such editing involves a line-by-line examination of a piece before it is returned to the author for pre-publication refinement. Quadrant, despite budgetary constraints common to the cash-restricted world of modern journalism, still employs several excellent […]

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I once wanted the ABC auctioned to the highest bidder, but my opinion has evolved. Rather than offload the tax-gobblers in one fell swoop, let us draw out the process one pencil, desk, chair and on-air personality at a time. After tormenting right-thinkers for so long, repayment in kind is overdue

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As all will know who dip into The Guardian to keep tabs on the latest lefty passions stirring the hearts of ninnies,  the writers and editors are to rational thought what grease traps are to kitchen sinks. No wonder they didn't see the downside in my neat scheme to put John Kerry in the White House

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What were the Human Rights Commission’s attacks on Bill Leak but attempts to silence him? Why else apart from fear and cowardice do media outfits marginalise conservative content? How else other than dumb censors would you categorise the Press Council's scolding ninnies?

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Bill Shorten abused an Asian shopkeeper unable to satisfy his yearning for a pie. Today he's Mr Caring-Sensitive and that incident has gone down the memory hole, just as Turnbull's backers forgot his abysmal record as a leader and vote-winner

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