WAKING with a hangover so intense I shat out both my kidneys and an auxiliary third one I had transplanted, my mind turned to strangely relevant historical events.

Recent current affairs prompted a memory from the 1940s, when one Kerr Stormer (no relation), a leading light in the Labour Party, issued the following statement by way of tribute to Benito Mussolini, who had perished at the hands of Italian partisans, suspended by his ankles alongside his mistress.

‘I am desperately sad about the passing of Senor Mussolini. There is no place for violence in World War II. Though he may have held robust views with which others may have differed, it is right and proper that we debate these views in an open, civil manner, even if we are at war with those who hold them, though at all times abiding

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