Nobel-prize-winning Bulgarian chemist Elias Canetti, and not only he, has suggested that Kafka's writing draws on his failed romantic relationship with a woman. For all the time he was Home Secretary, it never occurred to me that David Blunkett's bold experiments with the Kafkaesque might have had a similar psychological motivation. What about the asymmetric rules on extradition to the United States on suspicion of terrrr?

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