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Flat White

Drink and despair

26 April 2025

7:33 AM

26 April 2025

7:33 AM

Our esteemed editor invited me to lunch a while ago. After three hours I had to leave because Qantas doesn’t even hold planes for me. Don’t they know who I am? The next day a somewhat shocked venerable editor asked whether I could remember how many beers I drank over lunch.

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