When politicians write bad erotic fiction

This column has, once again, been overlooked for the Nobel Prize in Literature — although there’s still hope for the Peace Prize. Asked by Declassified if it could justify this blatant discrimination, the Nobel committee hung up the phone. Politicians can, of course, make great writers, and several have won Nobel’s literature prize, including Britain’s Winston Churchill in 1953, and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010. The latter — who ran for president in 1990 — won the prize “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” But has he ever referred to British Conservative grandee Jacob Rees-Mogg as a “Haunted Pencil”? No, he has not.