With news breaking tonight that the UK’s Brexit transition may be extended by a year, Mrs May appears to have taken a leaf from Scheherazade and her miraculous myths, tales and legends of the one thousand and one Arabian Nights.
Like Scheherazade, Mrs May appears to be fending off a grim schedule by keeping her intriguing tales from ever reaching a timeous end; "she always stops in an exciting place".
Indeed the enticement of what lies behind a closed door that tempts Salem, one of the characters in Sheherazade’s story-telling, seems also to have an equivalent in the ambition of a certain ex-Foreign Secretary to see for himself just what lies behind a certain door.
He should read the story of Salem who was also tempted to see what lay behind the door.
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Howzat!
In a press conference today, Prime Minister Mrs. May, facing daunting challenges in seeking to advance her draft Brexit agreement, referred to the diligence shown by one of her sporting heroes, Cricketer Geoffrey Boycott:
“One of my cricket heroes was always Geoffrey Boycott. And what do you know about Geoffrey Boycott? Geoffrey Boycott stuck to it and he got the runs in the end.”
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It's nice to know the leader of one of the most powerful and influential countries on Earth, with one of the largest economies, currently facing a constitutional dilemma that will sit in the history books of the country, turns not to an economist, a moralist, a philosopher, a political scientist, the biography of a great statesperson, a lesson from classical history, one of the great religious texts or even a referendum, but to an antisocial TV celebrity with a notoriously selfish attitude as a sportsman and a criminal record for wife-beating.
Presumably Kim Kardashian was too busy to give advice.