It's a peculiar thing, when you think about it, that a miserable pun has become as important as the Queen's Speech and The Wizard of Oz.
The group of doctors last week urged university officials to remove Oz from a faculty position on the grounds that he promotes "quack treatments" and "has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops".
Unfortunately for the Oz another senior staffer took a redundancy package on Friday.
Oz didn't address the critics on his own.
She became a legend with The Wizard Of Oz.
20 firm ripe cherries with stems intact, 300g (10? oz) good-quality, plain eating chocolate, broken into small, even-sized pieces Carefully wash and dry the cherries, making sure to leave the stems intact.
— Bill Bailey (@BillBailey) September 7, 2013 Oz, have you elected a climate-change denying halfwit, cos I said you can't have a world leader called Kevin?
The Australian was not happy when we reported last week that six senior journos quit in 2015 and managing editor Helen Trinca wanted us to know that staff numbers at the Oz overall remained the same.
The ball is hard: it weighs 5¾ oz (163g) and is covered in rigid leather.
Mr Oz has become, more so than most writers, a de-facto ambassador for Israel.
I wrote about how I had found myself at the age of 30 at a crossroads, just like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
