Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: Liz Truss follows the Yellow Brick Road

[Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images] 
issue 27 January 2024

In Competition No. 3333 you were invited to submit a short story that features Donald Trump or another politician of your choice in a well-known fictional landscape.

Joan Didion once observed that Ronald Reagan was the American politician to most fully embrace his own fictionality, making up stories in which he played the starring role.

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