D. Sebastião, se é para voltar, agora é a hora

E não é que o José Manuel Fernandes escreveu um artigo de opinião no Guardian?

Deep down, Portugal feels it has been playing catch-up for the last two centuries. After the loss of Brazil in 1820, and the failure to follow up on the promise of the industrial revolution, intellectuals began to speak of an "under-developed" Portugal – to contrast with the developed country of the previous centuries. It was around the same time that we saw the rise of "Sebastianismo" in Portuguese culture – that is, the longing for the reawakening of a national saviour figure, as the last ruler of the "golden dynasty", King Sebastian, had been, a sentiment kept alive by writers such as the 20th-century poet Fernando Pessoa.

Com um final arrepiante. De ler.