Stockholm syndrome. He joined The Australian in 2019.

I'm fairly convinced that V/Line is run by people who have never set foot on a train

Dark chocolate should only be used to enclose something sweet. White chocolate ... now you're talkin'!

Who wrote this slop? Were it a Year 9 essay it would score a Fail.

Who's the so-called journalist?

In the early 2000s I heard him moaning (that's the tone of his voice) that folks should spend less time worrying about their mortgages and think loftier thoughts. As one who had a mortgage (still does) and who engages in philosophy, physics, mathematics, I thought, "Fuck you, you millionaire!"

Some of the best writing in Moby-Dick involves the pursuit of a pod of whales while being pursued by pirates in the Sunda Strait.

I'll give POB another go. I recently read that Mary Renault was a fan. She's one of my favourite writers of historical fiction, so that's high recommendation.

19/20

Quite the coincidence that these notes were allegedly dispensed from an ATM "near a Synagogue."

18/20

It's such a sad story. The Tudors were a bunch of impostors, the lot of them, and they knew it.

17/20

All that takes organisation, training, refresher courses. For something covering every 18-65 year old, that's a big job. Who is going to do it? Defence? Or would Pezzullo just outsource it to his and Dutton's mates at Paladin?

16/20

It doesn't make sense. No point in the ABC sucking up to Dutton. Should the LNP win the election, it will shaft the national broadcaster quick and painful in its first budget. It doesn't make sense, unless it's a bad case of Stockholm syndrome.