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Some like it hot but I like my Christmas served cold

Michael Shmith

Michael Shmith My main concern was that Santa would be too hot and bothered to leave me anything.

How can I be proud of my China if we are a nation of 1.4bn cold hearts?

Yue Yue in the seconds before she was run over.

Lijia Zhang The death of the two-year-old run over as passersby ignored her is symptomatic of a deepening moral crisis

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The cold and the dutiful

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I HAVE a cold. They're common,

Drama of coat thief is no cold comfort

Heckler TO THE person who stole my coat: How is my coat going? I'm sure you couldn't believe your eyes when you were looking for your coat on the coat rack and, lo and behold, you saw my beautiful black...

Cold War secrets and the spies who came out of Canberra

Gerard Henderson

Gerard Henderson It is one of the many myths of Australian history that the 1950s was a boring decade in which nothing much happened.

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Unreliable statistics leave many out in the cold

Sarah Russell It is often claimed that mental illness is a primary cause of homelessness, and that most people who are homeless have a mental illness. Many of us nod our heads at this apparently obvious truth.

Flat-earthers, it's time for a cold shower

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Mike Carlton PARDON me for pointing out the bleedin' obvious but for those who have not been paying attention much of the planet has been devastated by extraordinary weather in the past year.

Climate alarmists out in the cold

Miranda Devine As the wheels keep falling off the climate alarmist bandwagon, it's suddenly become fashionable to be a sceptic. Out of the woodwork have crawled all sorts of fair-weather friends.

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The forbidden fruit in a very cold war

Apples

Chalpat Sonti Australia and New Zealand fight wars side-by-side, but not in the longest-running battle of all.

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Best cold beer is GE

Simon Webster Beer drinkers are being urged to take a stand against being genetically modified, writes Simon Webster .

The cold front behind nuclear Wintour

Anna Wintour.

Paul Sheehan People have been waiting for years for a film that captures the elegant enigma at the pinnacle of the global fashion industry, the Ice Queen herself, Anna Wintour.

Let's hop back to beer, in the spirit of good health

Sam de Brito - All men are liars

Sam de Brito Is there not a whiff of self-congratulation in the media coverage that Australians are drinking less beer?

Fighting an outbreak of complacency

Doctor with gloves and mask on.

Tony Adams Australia is ill-prepared for a fast-moving public health emergency.

Let's make up our own minds

Shelly Horton

Shelly Horton Last week the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, did something shocking and controversial.

Once more with feeling, Alan

Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons Bravo, Alan Jones. (And there is a sentence I have not written often - but I mean it.)

The apostrophe is a mother of all battles, but it's no day to keep mum

Mother's Day or Mothers' Day?

Richard Castles Among the greater controversies to test mankind, lying in scope somewhere between the question of God and the issue of spanking, is the correct placement of the apostrophe in ''Mothers' Day''.

Cooking under pressure: how MasterChef reflects reality

Tania Lewis

Tania Lewis Glamour and television magic cannot mask the exploitation of workers.

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Why clinical research should be freely exchanged

AFR

Adam Dunn and Enrico Coiera Countless lives could be saved if clinical trials went 'open source'.

Help, I'm a pyjama-clad leaf falling into autumn's soupy sea of despair

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Danny Katz Autumn's just a weird time of year when leaves fall off trees and everyone enters the autumn of their lives.