The Ruling Class

Friday 30th January 2015

James McAvoy and Kathryn Drysdale in The Ruling Class. Photo: Johan Persson
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Text of the day: “Britain is an imaginary island off the continent of Europe, covering 93,982 square miles, with a population of over 52 million, lying in a westerly wind belt. A fly-blown speck in the North Sea, a country of of cosmic unimportance in my sight.” (Jack in Peter Barnes’s The Ruling Class)

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