Boris In The Willows

Gert recently set off an interesting exchange with this letter to the paper:

Do the parties in Downing St remind anyone else of the weasels and stoats taking over Toad Hall in Wind in the Willows?

Correspondents had a lot of fun, as you can see:

Gaslighting

When she was  a child, Gert used to tell her little brother stories about a place called Arrapamatta.  These stories became the Denis Kodaly work  The 1001 Nights Of Iarcus Oralto. The talk-back radio program was invented in Arrapamatta, as was the art of gaslighting.

Plus ça change

Some new political metaphors

Dario Fo March 24 1926- October 10 2016

Exremely loud and incredibly close

    

Weasel words: commitments?promises?possibilities?

Weasel words

Another outstanding entry in our roll  of weasel words:

Plus ça change…

Does this sound like the current state of politics?

Assignment 1 in Gert’s Politics Course: Votes and confetti