CHRIS ROPER: Sold out, sold out!
That’s Jacob Zuma’s autobiography, apparently — all 100 copies available — not the former president coming clean about his relationship with the Guptas
16 December 2021 - 05:00
The story I really wanted to write about today was carried by The Guardian on Sunday, titled "Spanish Bishop who Married Author of Satanic Erotica is Stripped of Powers". What a great headline! It’s simultaneously coldly factual and wildly sensationalist. That’s the kind of headline I dream of.
It hints at a confluence of powers, both good and ungood, to quote Nick Cave’s song The Mercy Seat, and at an evil alliance between the word of God and the expletives of Satan...
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