EXCLUSIVE: HATER HANNAN ENDORSES THIEVING MAGPIES

Dan Hannan, during the sunny, winding close of the afternoon at Wellington College: "Magpies are just the most extraordinarily beautiful birds. One doesn't notice because we see them so often, but they have the most beautiful bejewelled wings."



And who could forget this kind of magpie too?

--: It occurs to Hyena after posting this that to be a brilliant orator, one has to have a sense of the poetic. This cannot be taught, and was therefore not included in Peter Botting's lecture on the subject.