Lethal costume party
It’s not often one can report that poetry was read out on the main BBC news broadcast. The poem was Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of “the most lethal costume party in history”.
One historian is quoted as saying “The British have always loved their defeats as much as their victories”. [...] And the ill-fated cavalry charge appeals to our appetite for “glorious failure”.
Ah yes, that’s me, the double whammy: British and Modernist!
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