Murder most foul and Dens of iniquity

Writer: Murray Stewart.

There has been an overwhelming response to a few topics we chatted about recently. The palindrome contributions were encouraging, although some of them weren’t palindromes at all. We also discovered where to buy cigarettes quite openly, and more about Marco Polo’s discoveries during his South African leg en route to China. Thanks for that.

Luckless leaders Over the centuries, leaders have been removed in different ways. Sometimes they’re voted out, sometimes they cede power to their next of kin and bow out. And sometimes they’re simply snuffed out.

Julius Caesar had no chance once the conniving cabal of senators bloodied his toga. Nor did Britain’s ‘warrior queen’ Boudica, when they tied her to a stake and braaied her. Then there’s Marie Antoinette who was pipped at the post, and lost by a head and, of course, Malcolm X (1965), Martin Luther King (1968) and Mahatma Gandhi (1948) who also bit the bullet unexpectedly.

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