Remember, remember the 5th of November
Claudian, invective and the devil in us all
A topical piece this week, because Tuesday was of course . . . Guy Fawkes’ Night!1 On the 5th of November each year Britain celebrates the foiling of a 400-year-old terrorist plot by setting light to things and blowing them up. There’s something undeniably odd but also psychologically satisfying about this, and I suppose the celebration has endured so lo…
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