"Cursitor Doom" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:33:15 +0100, michael adams wrote:

The UK urgently needs friends. It needs to be mending relations,
applying soothing diplomatic balm to wounded allies. Instead, Nigel
Farage turns up in swaggering pomp, crassly insulting members of the
European parliament, reinforcing for a continental audience the
impression that English politics,
once an exemplar of democratic moderation, has degenerated into the
pursuit of football hooliganism by other means.

Every dog has his day - that was Nige's. He's waited 17 years for it.

Rafael Behr Guardian

Oo-er. The Guardian; might have known.

The reference to

"the pursuit of football by other means"

at the end

was an allusion to Carl Von Clausewitz's celebrated dictum

"War is merely the pursuit of policy by other means"

Only Guardian readers and those educated to a similar standard, were expected
to get this illusion in the first place. So please don't feel too disappointed


michael adams

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