Hope Springs Eternal
This glorious April, the finest in my memory, is drawing to a close. I am, as will be obvious, no expert on 19th and 20th century English poetry but somewhere in the remotest dusty recesses of my memory banks are snippets of verse about the beauties of England in the spring. Were they by Rupert Brooke? Or perhaps by homesick, and long forgotten, colonial civil servants or army officers stuck in the sweatier parts of…
Bonfire of the Vanities
By Max Musson: In the local and European elections later this month, it is estimated that nationalist and patriotic parties will field a total of 2,570 candidates; 289 in the European elections; and 2,281 in local elections. In many of these elections, these candidates are standing unopposed by any other nationalist or patriotic candidates, but all too often, particularly in the European elections and also in local elections in wards that have traditionally produced much…