Your finest Ten Things yet - it evinces just the right amount of dyspeptic wrath. I wasn't aware of C. Northcote Parkinson's maxim but it's a ripper. In more forthright terms, it calls to mind David Parkin's coaching tenet: "if it ain't broke - smash it!"
Point 9 is so good it should get a bigger audience. Wouldn't it be great to get up the noses of the "I Stand With Dan" crowd one more time! Maybe in a letter to the Age, Labor's megaphone in Victoria?
Surely some parallels between Mott/Andrews/Costello?
How did we get to this point where shithouses get put in positions of power, and apparently become unassailable? Despite being completely hopeless?
Thinking about it, you can throw graphene-skinned Bairstow in there too! He must have albums of compromising pics of Rob Key and goodness knows who else. Just because you have the waistline of WG Grace does not mean you have his talent. Certainly not while the most beautiful (glovework of) Ben Foakes misses out.
Your finest Ten Things yet - it evinces just the right amount of dyspeptic wrath. I wasn't aware of C. Northcote Parkinson's maxim but it's a ripper. In more forthright terms, it calls to mind David Parkin's coaching tenet: "if it ain't broke - smash it!"
CNP is one of the culture's most underestimated polymaths and aphorists. Highly recommended.
Best 10. Andrews getting a gong is hideousness. And Mott sounds suspiciously like Simon "Learnings" Goodwin.
Point 9 is so good it should get a bigger audience. Wouldn't it be great to get up the noses of the "I Stand With Dan" crowd one more time! Maybe in a letter to the Age, Labor's megaphone in Victoria?
Surely some parallels between Mott/Andrews/Costello?
How did we get to this point where shithouses get put in positions of power, and apparently become unassailable? Despite being completely hopeless?
Thinking about it, you can throw graphene-skinned Bairstow in there too! He must have albums of compromising pics of Rob Key and goodness knows who else. Just because you have the waistline of WG Grace does not mean you have his talent. Certainly not while the most beautiful (glovework of) Ben Foakes misses out.