Stan Grant publishes takedown of Peter FitzSimons
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A nine-month old feud between two of biggest egos in national journalism reignited spectacularly last week when
Stan Grant executed a revenge attack on
Peter FitzSimons.
Previously warm relations between the pair have been up and down since their opinion page fisticuffs last year over FitzSimons’ book on Captain James Cook. Grant took to this paper’s opinion pages to label some parts of the book as “ludicrous”.
Fast forward to last week when Grant contributed a chapter to
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