I'm enjoying these, Dominic, you little left-leaning Geoffrey-Hillite you!
2009/10/23 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> OUR FALKLANDS, little cared-for, moved quiet
> Lambeth to contrite rebellion -
> to unrejoicing, which was not forgiven.
> If there is genius in the English church, it is
> for trenchant subtlety, fixing the halting
> point of equivocation. LET ME HEAR
> BOTH SIDES. No comment possible from F. U.,
> being both fictional and dead; as you too,
> Baroness, may be when I am finished.
> Let Chingford have his snarl. Give Blaby
> back his bottle. Thenford may holler.
> Opposition cat-calls indiscernible
> over background roar of vertical take-off,
> weaponised finance reaching for the skies.
>
> * * *
>
> I've just realised why the Fatima Mansions' "Mr Baby" is so titled.
> (Blaby is where Nigel Lawson has his peerage). I may now have achieved
> a long-held ambition: to write poetry that rivals Cathal Coughlan's
> lyrics for obliquity...
>
> To save you looking them up: Chingford is Tebbit (as is probably well
> known); Thenford is Heseltine. "Our Falklands" is a phrase uttered by
> Francis Urquhart in the television series _The Final Cut_.
>
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