The play still shocks with the pettiness of the offences that have brought the convicts to the flogger or the hangman. |
Why should there be a distinction between the flogger and the flogged? |
Certainly painful, probably humiliating, but it would be done under close medical supervision by a licensed flogger, and it would be over in minutes. |
As U-turns go, it makes the recent conversion of that MP from hanger and flogger to the acceptable face of breakfast TV seem inconsequential. |
It is also known under the name of flogger, the latter seemingly the more appropriate of the two. |
How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous? |