The invitation to submit a conversation between St Peter and a well-known figure who is demanding admission to heaven.
Although the brief asked for a dialogue, Janice Harayda’s Donald Trump made the cut despite St Peter not getting a word in edgeways. Given that Trump doesn’t come across as the greatest listener — when asked who he consults on foreign policy he replied that his primary consultant was himself — this struck me as an altogether plausible scenario.
It was a strong performance all round: your supplicants, who ranged from John Bunyan to Hitler, deployed wit, guile and barefaced cheek in trying to wiggle their way past the keeper of the pearly gates. Sid Field’s wisecracking Groucho Marx and Martyn Hurst’s silver-tongued Tony Blair deserve honourable mentions. The winning entries, printed below, earn their authors £30 apiece.
Janice Harayda Donald Trump: ‘We will make heaven great again when you admit me. We have no choice, Pete.
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