The Man who would be King

is a story by Rudyard Kipling, later made into a movie with Sean Connery & Michael Caine, about two British soldiers who venture into a province of Afghanistan, armed with 20 Martini-Henry rifles, to set themselves up as kings.


Tony Abbott, leader of the conservative Coalition, wanted to be King of Australia. He failed. Not miserably; but in a binary election, near enough is not good enough. So he has sought out a province in Afghanistan, armed with an F88 Steyr assault rifle, to try his luck there......

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Source: AdelaideNow