by A.B. Stuart
“There is a war between the rich and the poor, a war between the man, and the woman,” Leonard Cohen sang in 1974. He continued to croon: “There is a war between the left and right, a war between the black and white, a war between the odd and the even.”
I’m not entirely sure what he was on about – perhaps something to do with the unsettledness of the present age or the conflict that modernity had brought – but, regardless, the song has stuck. With its catchy tun…
