In their blue track suits and white baseball caps they resembled nothing so much as the race of fierce, war-like Smurfs that Saruman bred in the vaults beneath Isengard. (It’s a while since I read Lord of the Rings, but I think you will find I have got the essentials right.)
Monday, April 14, 2008
Calder's Comfort Farm: The Olympic torch
My latest New Statesman column can be found on the magazine's website:
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Pedant's corner: the torch is lit at ancient Olympia, a sacred precinct in the Peloponesse, not (Mount) Olympus in Thessaly, near the border with Macedonia.
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