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Terry Prone: We thought we’d consigned it to history but beware — polio is back

Terry Prone: We thought we’d consigned it to history but beware — polio is back

We have all but forgotten how polio devastated lives in the 1950s and must heed warnings from New York, London, and the HSE

Mon, 15 Aug, 2022

Terry Prone: Getting old means wanting to smack anyone who describes you as “feisty”

Terry Prone: Getting old means wanting to smack anyone who describes you as “feisty”

From wanting to smack anyone who asks if you’re “still” working to becoming impatient with Jane Fonda, getting old means a great many things, writes Terry Prone.

Mon, 08 Aug, 2022

Team of medical staff in personal protective equipment walking in hospital corridor

Terry Prone: Books by practising medics really ought to be prescribed reading

Keeping the day job does maintain a close connection with the realities on the hospital floor

Mon, 01 Aug, 2022

Paul McCartney,Dave Grohl

Terry Prone: Anthony Fauci, Ken Auletta, and Paul McCartney show us what 80 can look like

The ex-Beatle has been joined by two Americans (also in their eighties) to collectively head-butt ageism where it hurts. Good.

Mon, 25 Jul, 2022

2022 Disney Dreamers Academy

Terry Prone: Broken ribs on holiday? There are worse things that could happen

All my life I have been accident-prone, which has led to dozens of irritating people making a play on my name...

Mon, 18 Jul, 2022

Boris Johnson resignation

Terry Prone: After Clownfall, Boris Johnson will resume his highly profitable media career

Nearly gone but not forgotten — because he's box office, editors will pay for the disgraced prime minister's raucous nonsense

Mon, 11 Jul, 2022

Team of medical staff in personal protective equipment walking in hospital corridor

Terry Prone: After two solid years, have we abandoned our 'duty of opposition' to Covid?

Familiarity breeds contempt and it seems we no longer care about a pandemic that is very much still here

Mon, 04 Jul, 2022

Pius And The Pressmen

Terry Prone: Secrecy a thing of the past as Pope opens up trove of Second World War letters

Pope Francis has made 40,000 files accessible to anyone who wants to read them — but they do not make for comfortable reading

Mon, 27 Jun, 2022

John Hughes blends memoir with the essay, 30 November 2004. SMH Picture by ST

Terry Prone: How plagiarist John Hughes doubled down on his own downfall

The novelist responded badly to being caught, capped by his complaint that it had all, you know, really ruined his week

Mon, 20 Jun, 2022

Terry Prone: ‘Fake news’ in the Vatican amid the struggle over the Pope’s reforms

Terry Prone: ‘Fake news’ in the Vatican amid the struggle over the Pope’s reforms

Synodality — the Pope’s desire to have the Church begin to listen to local communities and the grassroots faithful — drives traditionalists nuts

Mon, 13 Jun, 2022