Dirty deeds
THE butler did do it. In the classic movie Murder on the Orient Express the butler, played by the oleaginous John Gielgud, did the dirty deed.
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Bad-time stories
REMEMBER the once-upon-a-time time? When children were scared by fairy stories about giants up beanstalks and old crones with gingerbread cottages?
Rallying to the cause
AUSTRALIA’S right-wing pundits have just retreated from a retreat – where they’ve been renewing their rancour and replenishing their rage.
A rock and a hard place
IT was like a scene from the first Indiana Jones movie – when they crashed through the jungle and discovered an ancient temple choked in vines.
A rock and a hard place
THE mysteries of time are sometimes bound up in the plainest things.
The great greenhouse plot
ONCE upon a time there was an evil genius who was worse, far worse than Hitler, Stalin, Mao or the Bogey Man.
Bad dream, wet dream
THE nightmares of the Bush era were over and something verging on the erotic happened in the US electorate.
Abbott in Wonderland
THEOPHILUS Carter of oxford is generally accepted as the model for Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter.
What’s new?
A NEW year isn’t. New. Well, not particularly. It’s a bit like a new moon, which isn’t, either.
A eulogy in chocolate
ONE of our favourite bars is closing for business.
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