THE WRONG TROUSERS?
Found among the effects in the bullet-pocked,
blood stained rooms of Bin Laden’s hideaway
in Abbottabad – named for Major Abbott
of the British Raj – was a journal
describing Osama’s time in the UK
as a young, ultimately disillusioned,
teenager. For some reason, unexplained,
with his hosts he visited Shakespeare’s birthplace
every Sunday. ‘Here’s a knocking indeed!…
How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!’
Also found: ‘Mr Bean’s Holiday’
dubbed in Pashtu; the viral video
‘Charlie Bit My Finger’; and an episode
of Wallace and Gromit.