Peter Jones

The comedy and the crisis

issue 06 April 2019

Since comedians these days seem to be the authorities on all matters spiritual and temporal (puts on funny voice, knife-crime ends), who better than the comic playwright Aristophanes to show us how, despite our feckless MPs, we can leave the EU?

In 425 bc Athens had for six years been locked in a grinding war against Sparta.

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