Skewered Britannia


James Gillray [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.  I am sufficiently behind the scenes to know the worth of political life.  I am quite an Infidel about it, and shall never be converted.”

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield


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