Letter From Britain
Queen Of The Silver Squalour
You’re gonna have to take a little nationalist fervour here.
September 1, 1977
You’re gonna have to take a little nationalist fervour here. We’ve just spent a week trying to put the Great back into Britain. It only happens every 25 years and a tatty affair it was. It rained all the time and the union jacks were made of dripping plastic. Still and all the Queen did enough to keep the Sex Pistols out of the papers. They had a good week otherwise. Their own jubilee number, “God Save The Queen,” is number two in the chads and their own jubilee party, in a boat on the Thames, was heavied over by the cops. Malcolm McLaren got arrested.