Open Mic MONDAY 17th AUGUST + Political Caption Competition
POLITICAL FACT OF THE DAY: The Magna Carta was signed in 1215 in England, establishing the principle that the monarch was subject to the law.
POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY:“Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.”
― Salman Rushdie
POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
No one held the knife
No one plotted, no one moved
Yet Penk swings alone
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