Lucy Vickery

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

‘Xi Jinping’s Manifesto incorporates and infinitely improves upon sympathetic elements in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings’. Credit: eye35.pix / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 12 March 2022

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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