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Absolutely Revolting
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'Self Portrait' by Barry Dickins

by Barry Dickins •
April 1986, no. 79

It is Sunday and that is all it is. I have just read the Australian. It is not Australian. It is The Cringe. I have struggled to like Phillip Adams for years; I liked him when he was Phillip Adams – I guess he did too. He worships Mammon when he once seemed to worship cries in the street and whispers from above. No God in him.

 


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