Alas, it is a rare week in which we fail to score, but this was it. I can't, in all fairness, give you a lot of stick, since I didn't enter myself. The entry on gay and transgender livestock is, I think, very funny.
The new competition has possibilities, even if you have the misfortune not to be a Brit. Everybody knows that Brighton is a kind of mini San Francisco, known for drugs and gays and general artiness. Glasgow,,, well, you know, not good. Bournemouth, where the old go to die. I'd better not go on. I think I shall champion Whitstable. What rhymes with Whitstable?
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The good folk of Swindon recently wrote an opera entitled Swindon: The Opera to celebrate 60 years of life in the town. You are invited to submit an extract from the libretto of an opera that pays homage to another British town/city of your choice (16 lines maximum). Email entries to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 28 March
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