Final farewell to a diligent professional
Sorry to personalise this offering very briefly but over the past week a sudden personal loss proved a major mental distraction for me. My close friend’s death actually distracted me from reading newspapers and keeping up with local issues of some significance. Which, perhaps because of age and life-long interest, is what I would normally do daily.
So I hope I’m not repeating other people’s views recklessly herein for I did glimpse a few exchanges between government and opposition – directly and by way of their surrogates and supporters.
I recall that a few columns ago I rehashed a by-gone concept of “a loyal opposition”. That was/is the practice – or intention – whereby the British regarded the parliamentary opposition as extremely responsible and actually a (critical) component of government! (Note I wrote “bygone” above – obsolete, ancient.)
