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Australian Notes

Australian notes

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

20 July 2019

9:00 AM

Superglued to the Greens

The great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh once catalogued a fictional, remote and newly-converted Christian sect who continued to engage in cannibalism but not during Lent and only with ‘special and costly dispensation from their bishop’.

I don’t know what penance arrangements environmental activists have in place, but they certainly have great demand for them.

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