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Apr 13, 20221 min read

The Long View

A news bulletin on the outcome of the 2010 general election delivered by a well-known figure from history

Behold there were three: Hope, Haplessness and Harmony who, being lower than Haplessness, was nonetheless higher than Hope. And having done battle together their rankings were sorely unsettled.

Then spake Haplessness to Hope saying, ‘Be thou my companion and, being as one, we can overcome Harmony.’ Likewise spake Harmony to Hope. And thus it was that Hope, hitherto least amongst them, grew greatly in stature and, having courted both, chose Harmony to be his bedfellow.

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