No, I don’t think so.’
One raised bushy eyebrow, a slight cocking of the head, a piercing glint in the steely blue eyes and a faint, almost imperceptible downward movement at the corner of the mouth. When John Howard disagrees with you, ‘No I don’t think so’ is said with such scary finality that, well, ‘no’ really does mean ‘no’.
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Rowan Dean is the associate editor of The Spectator Australia and author of Beyond Satire.
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