May 24, 2017

B & V

Is it time, finally, at long last, for a world-wide “Winston is back” moment? It was your countryman who told us that “after the first death, there is no other”.

Manchester is blown apart by men who came straight from Tours, from the siege at Malta, from Lepanto, from Vienna – think of the world without Bach or Mozart – from Omdurman, from 9/11. Each of them, all of them, heard the rabidly feral “Allah Akbar” coming from their fellow thugs as they slaughtered those unfortunate enough to be in front of them.

Abraham Lincoln said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact”. Your forebears had no problem killing more Catholics in the 16^th century than Spain. You may remember me telling you that English judges had no problem cutting Amy’s cousin’s head off in 1649. It was Kipling who warned us of the folly, of the danger of “paying the Dane-geld”.

“One used and butchered me: another spied

 Me broken – for which thing a hundred died.

So it was learned among the heathen hosts

How much a freeborn woman’s favours costs.”

My Texas Ladies are Florida bound in June. 3 of them are of an age that would have had them in the Manchester arena.

Nolo tangere cum impecunis!

KS

PS – Would you think ill of me if I were to say that Enoch Powell was right? And, if we cede the moral high ground to these “trousered apes” by allowing them to call on God for approbation while your country and mine do everything possible to distance ourselves from any deity, may I suggest a return to “Deus vult” may be in order? 

“God Save the Queen” was played at Yankee Stadium last night before a baseball game.

“When Pericles spoke, people said how well he speaks.

When Demosthenes spoke, people said Let us March!”