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Terry McCrann: How this was the week of bitter irony

FROM fast trains to higher taxes, it was a week of bitter irony after bitter irony, says Terry McCrann.

The week we jumped the irony shark

IN HIS weekly video wrap, above, Terry McCrann says irony was breaking out deadpan everywhere.

We had the ‘innovation PM’ — the smartest guy in the 21st century virtual reality room — enthuse about trains. And 19th century means of funding them.

We had the man who railed against producing too-much iron ore announcing that his company had — produced even more ore.

And we had various pressure groups calling for higher taxes — in the week the ‘Panama Papers’; showed how people flee, well, higher taxes.

Originally published as Terry McCrann: How this was the week of bitter irony

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