Boulevard of Broken Dreams
David Pope
David Pope combines references to Edward Hopper and Milliways (the restaurant at the end of the universe in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) in this commentary on the woes of leaders who had received support from media giant Rupert Murdoch.
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