Pizzey's Perch

When it was writ­ten, there was no obvi­ous con­nec­tion to the Beatle’s prof­itable lyric “mon­ey can’t buy me love” and the Paul the Apostle’s warn­ing that “the love of mon­ey is a root of all kinds of evil’. In a coin­ci­dence you couldn’t make up, how­ev­er, mon­ey is the basis of an unholy link-up of two rep­re­hen­si­ble regimes and an eas­ing of a record-break­ing enmi­ty between two others.… Read the rest