Hüzün and Count BinfaceIn Istanbul, Memories of the City, Orson Pamuk talks about the concept of Hüzün. Hüzün is a melancholy which falls over a whole country and its people, consuming them with a sense of hopelessness which seems inescapable. The Iran war was the final nail in the proverbial coffin which housed Britain’s status as a world power in the eyes of its citizens. Burnham BurningAs I’ve already said, the election of Andy Burnham as Prime Minister is just one other example of this miserable exhaustion brought about by the hüzün of lost empire in the UK. In the meantime, however, the people of Clacton should combat their own hüzün by voting for Count Binhead.