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Richard Laidlaw on things that interest, engage and enrage

History

  • SHOW US YER UNDIES

    AUSTRALIA DAY 2024 Do they have little flags on them, like the ones on toothpicks that are condemned to celebrate Australia Day by being stuck into sausages or lamingtons? If not, you’re not a patriotic Aussie and you should get back on the boat, or whatever. Such is the banality and tenor of debate in Continue reading

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  • Let’s Not Forget

    Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021 There’s a lovely verse in Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 track – it has headed my personal hit parade for more than four decades – and it seems apt, almost totemic, as a way of describing life as I am living it these days: He’s got this dream about buying some Continue reading

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