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Competition

Spectator competition winners: political manifestos inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien and Lewis Carroll

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3239, you were invited to submit political manifestos inspired by literary heroes.

Sajid Javid loves Ayn Rand: twice a year, he reads the courtroom scene in The Fountainhead. Justin Trudeau is a Stephen King super-fan, Boris Johnson reckons Flashman is ‘the greatest’ and Macron is mad for Molière (he can recite chunks of the French dramatist’s plays from memory).

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