Saturday, November 29, 2008

Scenes from the Parliament of Ismailia

It just seems like something out of a former colony where messengers carry telegrams on long, cleft sticks:


On the whole, and in the main, and everything considered, you do not in a democracy go around arresting the Opposition. For some time now, web humorists have been spelling new Labour “Nu-Labour”. As reports of Damian Green's arrest swirled yesterday, the prefix ZA attached itself to the bloggers' joke: ZANU-Labour. If by lunch I had heard the comparison with Zimbabwe once, I had heard it a dozen times.

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