Pity the Policymakers

Political football and poems of woe

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord Wailing will be in all the broad ways and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus Wailing shall be in all streets and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

The iconoclastic British historian A. J. P. Taylor quipped that laments about the decline of Britain were really generalized reflections of Oxford academics view of the servant problem.

There is an outflow of capital from developing regions either to meet those rising costs or to be invested in the developed world, leaving those regions woefully short of capital for investment.

Last year, the parliament launched a lamentably amateurish Web TV broadcasting service whose large budget was spent not on good programming but on doing everything in all the EU s official languages.

It was perhaps the most memorable and lamentable moment in a lamentable campaign a moment that, in the history now to be written of humanity s effort to preserve a livable planet, is destined for immortal notoriety.