Status Updates From The Comedians

‘But hasn’t it occurred to you, Mr. Brown, that it isn’t the poor who make the trouble in the world? Wars are made by politicians, by capitalists, by intellectuals, by bureaucrats, by Wall Street bosses or Communist bosses—they are none of them made by the poor.’
‘And the rich and the powerful aren’t vegetarian, I suppose?
‘No sir. Not usually.’ Again I felt ashamed of my cynicism.

—who cares for dead politicians sufficiently to remember with what issues they were identified? Free Trade is less interesting than an Ashanti war, though the London pigeons do not distinguish between the two.