Inside View: Pickles the die-hard Marxist

Groucho Marx said there was no such thing as a 'Sanity Clause'. Local government finance settlement will be no Christmas wish list either.

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By Jonathan Werran | 16 October 2013

According to the perplexing paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise, proposed by early Greek philosopher Zeno, the fleet-footed hero could never catch the plodding creature.

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