Through A Glass Eye, Darkly

Today The Trial Of The Century entered its endgame, with Humpty Numpty taking the stand.

Although the BBC fairly reports that he burst into tears and compared himself unfavourably to Superman (an analogy which seems singularly inappropriate, given the Man of Steel's penchant for undressing in telephone boxes), the old street fighter's mettle was still in evidence when he cried,

"I think, sometimes, when you are dealing with the power of the law and the most reactionary scab outfit in the world you will have to fight dirty, yes".

Reactionary scabs...perhaps.

But he who denounces last denounces longest, Comrade.