Tag: Covid
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When Donald Trump, defeated in the polls, tells his supporters to go to the Capitol and ‘fight like hell’, and then goes into denial mode, despite plentiful backup video evidence, the whole thing becomes a Democrat-led conspiracy, a ‘witch hunt’ and a ‘stitch up’. When Boris Johnson, flouting his own Covid lockdown regulations, joins with…
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A Hedgehog and Covid 19
One of my recent posts was about Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse”, whose nest has just been dug up by his ploughshare. In Philip Larkin’s case, it’s a hedgehog and a mower. In neither case was a crime committed ‘with malice aforethought’. Burns was giving his field a plough, and Larkin was giving his…
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