The acrid smoke of flares mingled with shouts of “Send them back!” and the soaring strains of William Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’. It was a scene as jarring as it was profoundly, bewilderingly ironic. Protestors railing against asylum seekers, their faces shadowed by the orange glow, bellowed forth a hymn whose very genesis and author stands in … Continue reading Have They Lost The Plot? Protestors Play ‘Jerusalem’ As They March Against Asylum Seekers