Well, I can't make any sense out of American politics, and I certainly don't know anything about British politics.
But I do like the the poem titled "Politics" by Yeats. I believe it was the last poem he wrote:
Politics
In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in political terms. —Thomas Mann
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics,
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has both read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms.
Perhaps there should be some law requiring all politicians to take a course in poetry. If they spent half of each day reading and arguing about poetry, they'd have that much less time to trouble our lives.
Richard
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