It's a small world after all

Macquarie University, on the north western outskirts of Sydney, has developed a hard-won reputation as being a university you can get into even if you fail at high school.

Take Antony Loewenstein - please - whose few claims to legitimacy include being on the Board of the Centre for Middle East and North African Studies.

Now here's someone (reportedly a Masters student) Loewie might well meet in the corridors of Macquarie's Department of Politics and International Relations - yet another clear case of Blair's Law in action.