Blissful Common is a poem recently written by Bournbrook’s S D Wickett

There is no opprobrium so scalding, so molten that Britain’s elite do not deserve it poured upon them.

All those involved agree the first episode was a fairly shoddy affair – all the more reason to share it now!

“There is no bombast to be found in Sunken Island, nor sentimentality, nor Patience Strong-style platitudes.”

“I see your eyes are heavy;/They’ve never been robbed before./I see your hands are bruised and beaten,/From beating on my door.”

Given the Second World War has become something like Britain’s founding myth, to make this point feels like denigrating our national story.

Rishi Sunak has not got the diagnosis right about innumeracy, so his proposed treatment is condemned to disappoint those who wish to see standards re-emerge.

This essay on the behaviour of crowds in the modern era was first released a year ago today.