12 NOVEMBER 1994, Page 40

To the High Court of Parliament

November 1994

Where's probity in this - the slither-frisk to lordship of a kind as rats to a bird-table?

England — now for genius the eidolon - unsubstantial yet voiding substance like quicklime: privatize to the dead her memory: let her wounds weep into the lens of oblivion.

Geoffrey Hill