Poor John Hewson. After being booted from The SMAge for being pale, male and stale — as stale as the cake that lost him the 1993, with his bitter rants against the party that once made him its leader and handed him almost free rein — has ended up in the Salon des Refusés, the Saturday Paper

It’s Anna Schwartz that has the art gallery, but left-wing property developer Morry has a strange and gloomy collection of has-beens, never wills and fringe dwellers that make up the contributors roster of Australia’s most boring paper (paper rather than newspaper because as it’s...