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Owen Gallagher - The Home Secretary Addresses the Prime Minister
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ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
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Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
The Home Secretary Addresses the Prime Minister
Owen Gallagher
Everything is as we found it, Prime Minister;
the Red Box containing the Budget, his hip-flask
and BlackBerry; no good-bye letter; nothing sinister.
It’s as if he was summoned to be taken to task
by the patron saint of tax collectors, St. Matthew.
The duty officer said he was in good spirits
when he entered number eleven. The staff who
assist have been interviewed. There have been no hits
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