Unbridled Chaos

Yet another Brexit metaphor appears to have rampaged out of control in West Yorkshire yesterday, as a group of archaic transportation devices galloped the wrong way down the fast lane of a motorway. According to one witness, the animals "were totally oblivious to the danger and romped past as if they hadn’t a care in the world," although the incident's precision as a Brexit metaphor is somewhat qualified by the fact that no shots were fired and nobody was killed. It remains to be seen whether Her Majesty's Government has any plans to enact legislation to rein in the country's Brexit metaphors, which have been running more or less riot since the referendum.

It would, of course, be both unfair and irrelevant for a metropolitan élitist and citizen of nowhere such as myself to point out that Runaway Horses is the English title of a Yukio Mishima novel whose protagonist attempts a right-wing coup d'état in defiance of all reality and ends up disembowelling himself.