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Satirical illustration of men in business suits kneeling barefoot in snow before golden gates, with the White House and a brightly lit cage-fighting octagon visible on the lawn beyond, bunting on the fence and banknotes drifting down like snowflakes.

Canossa on the South Lawn

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In 1077 a king knelt three days in the snow at Canossa, and it worked. Nine and a half centuries on, the pope-king turns eighty behind a cage on the South Lawn while the pretenders queue: a trillionaire, a Crown Prince, and a deputy sheriff paying by direct debit. Urban Wronski on the new Investiture Controversy.