John Donne’s (1572 – 1631) fabulous poem for St Lucy’s day, “being the shortest day” seems harder to find online in its original spelling, so I thought I’d preserve it here. TIS the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes, Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes, The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks Send [...]
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Now that’s news. Forget all this “big embarrassment”. Politicians aren’t embarrassed by Wikileaks. They lie, they get elected, and then they lie some more. Embarrassment isn’t in their glossary. Power is. So the media is in a spot of bother. All they can talk about is “political embarrassment” because they can’t or won’t editorialise the [...]
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