A floppy-haired beast of Brexit walks among us
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The Herefordshire legend of Black Vaughan tells the story of an evil 15th-century nobleman who returns in various spectral forms - a black fly, a black dog, a black bull, some gerbils - to molest farm girls, spill milk, and upset apple carts. But the dead aristocratic pest is eventually subdued by 12 priests and a pregnant woman in the Welsh border town of Kington, in a priest/pregnancy-based variant on Kurosawa´s Seven Samurai. Folklore tells us that we too could defeat our current existential crisis, or Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Johnson, as it is commonly known. Despite initially supporting people´s right to wear the burqa, cake-and-eat-it style, Boris Piccaninny Watermelon...