Home Truths and Foreign Freedoms

Abstract

Just as Arden and D’Arcy identify and realise the potential of setting political plays in non-contemporary historical periods, other dramatists have fruitfully exploited conventional reactions to foreign political regimes, sometimes to make an oblique comment on matters ‘closer to home’, or alternatively to throw into relief a general inadequacy of political response to anything other than the immediate.

I conclude there is an obligation, a human responsibility, to fight against the State correctness. Unfortunately that is not a safe conclusion.

Professional Foul ¹

How tiresome it must be to live in a country where human rights are so respected that you must look elsewhere to justify an otherwise futile sense of outrage.

Cousin Vladimir ²