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March 2024

We coulda been Stuttgart!
There are few things as enjoyable in life as a really enormous cock up, provided, of course, that you are not the one being blamed for upping all those…
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John Birmingham
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Punishment schedule for billionaire offenders.
My friends, it's time for real talk. This billionaire crime spree cannot go on. For too long now, the ultra-rich have been getting away with murder by…
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John Birmingham
47
Mmm. Chocolate Mousse Royale
Peter Dutton going full Oprah is very Nathan For You. Allow me to unpack this memefest for anyone whose head just went boing! Having worked very hard to…
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John Birmingham
34
Work from home, as a dinky-di Chinese spy!
We’re switching it up a little today with a lucky dip of topics because… well, it's my column and I can.
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John Birmingham
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February 2024

Clean up on aisle 5.
We shall borrow from Oscar Wilde in contemplating the fall of Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci from the top shelf at S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (the Secretive…
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John Birmingham
32
A few quiet words about Barnaby.
I had a long and genuinely fascinating conversation with Barnaby Joyce once. It was an interview, probably for some weekend feature at the Herald or the…
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John Birmingham
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Memorandum of Compliance for Top Rating Popular Interview Between His Excellency Vladimir Putin and Comrade of the First Rank Tucker Carlson
This Memorandum of Compliance ("Memorandum") is entered into on this date, by and between the Office of His Excellency Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin…
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John Birmingham
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What if they had a Culture War and Tay Tay didn't turn up?
I am sorry to inform you that there is no war between Taylor Swift and Donald Trump. This makes me sad because T/Swift is Rome at the height of her…
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John Birmingham
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January 2024

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