British Prisoners

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    History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.
    Alex Mitchell, British left-wing journalist. quoted in Sunday Times (London, 29 Dec. 1985)

    We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne (c. 1572–1631)