Windsor Forest revisited
"Windsor Forest" is of course Alexander Pope's portrait of pastoral perfection, "where order in variety we see" and "where peace descending...scatters blessings from her dovelike wing." Now, however, Windsor is the scene of the European multicultural dystopia. The Daily Express reports on the "riots over mosque on Queen's doorstep":
THE QUEEN’s home town was gripped by fear last night as war erupted between rival gangs of race-hate thugs.For a brilliant review/essay on the theme pregnant in this story, see Theodore Dalrymple's "Suicide of the West" from the new issue of the Claremont Review of Books.Extra officers were called in and riot police placed on stand-by as mobs of Muslim and white youths prepared for a fourth consecutive night of violence in the royal town of Windsor in Berkshire.
