Auguries

For all these encouraging auguries for Labour, we are just a week into the new year and a dumper truck of suggestions about how he could be doing better has been unloaded on Sir Keir.

CBN read the auguries well and pointed the industry to developments in electronics payments.

Notwithstanding the release of seven of those held in the KGB prison, who participated in Lukashenko’s “Potemkin” round table a week or so ago, the auguries for protesters’ facing criminal charges are not at all good.

The auguries appear to be for more riots — perhaps, many more — before sanity sets in and police can, if reformed somewhat, restore a reasonably stable civil order.

The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan (Byron) XIII); John Gay (Fables); Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man).