In Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe the British House of Lords, which ‘did nothing in particular, but did it very well’, ends up flying off to Fairyland.
Probably not many people in Australia read the House of Lords Hansard assiduously, but those who do not have missed a debate, almost fairylike in its unreality, held before the Manchester massacre, as to the Muslim concepts of Taqiyya and Al-Hijra.
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