The media as Caesar's wife

History is made in bed. Those memorable words in a BBC radio programme recalled my Jesuit history teacher in Kolkata saying that Britain is a Protestant country because Henry VIII wanted to marry his "concubine" - Father Schepers' description of Anne Boleyn whom the king preferred to his Spanish Catholic first wife. Father Schepers also introduced me to Pascal's saying "If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter the whole history of the world would have been different".

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