Less of a bang and more of a whimper... Andy Martin reckons the end will be marked by a long, slow steady decline, punctuated by ever more overwhelming catastrophes – a bit like now really!
would have written: “Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough.” Slough, it should be noted, is really Slough in this poem, but it also represents everything that Betjeman does not like .
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