Back by popular demand, here’s a piece I published several years ago, which will be included in my new collection of parables. The relevance of this one becomes more and more apparent with each passing day …
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The Baby Government: A Modest Supposal
Nobody was very surprised when the Baby Party came to power. For decades the Babies had been steadily gaining inroads until finally, thanks to a series of scandals that rocked the Children’s Party (not to mention the absence of public trust in any politician over the age of five), the day arrived when the Babies easily swept the polls.