Double trouble
1 October 2005
Anthony Browne on the marked increase in the number of twins and its social and economic consequences
When I told my friend the New York comedian Ophira Eisenberg that my wife was pregnant with twins, she didn’t boom ‘double trouble’, ‘twice the fun’, or ‘two for the price of one’. Instead, she leant over and whispered conspiratorially: ‘Twins are taking over the world.’
Laugh, I did. But I am not laughing now. Twins have not only taken over my home, but, following the traditional path to world domination, they are about to take over Poland. After last Sunday’s elections, Jaroslaw Kaczynski is in line to become the next prime minister, while his identical twin Lech is the front-runner in next fortnight’s presidential polls. The prospect of having genetic clones holding simultaneously the two greatest offices of state has proved too much even for the Kaczynski twins, who shot to fame as child stars in the film The Two That Stole The Moon. Jaroslaw has promised to stand down as PM if his twin gets the presidency.
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