There, then, a while in chains we lay, In wintry dungeons, far from day; But ris’n at length, with might and main, Our iron fetters burst in twain. -R. L. Stevenson The Swedish police response to the ongoing Muslim riots … Continue reading
Lead, lead. The time seems long: their blood thinks scorn, Till it fly out and show them princes born. –Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Lord Mandelson, a former Cabinet Minister in the Blair and Brown administrations, recently announced that the Labor Party had … Continue reading
Till the justice of the world is awakened, such as these will go on, without admonition, and without provocation, to every extremity. Those who have made the exhibition of the 14th of July, are capable of every evil. They do … Continue reading
O boundless heart, kept fresh by pity’s dews! – John Sterling I want to use the Gentle Bard as a metaphor for the European people and the power of a spiritual force animated by the King of Kings. At the … Continue reading
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice Cry “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. -Shakespeare The recent public execution in Britain of … Continue reading
