When winners lose out to runners-up

Now it looks as if the next two years at least will be a much more but still compromised benevolent oligarchy in which ‘national government’ means precious little in terms of accountability to the people

 Friday, 28 August 2015

Politics, like cricket, is a game of glorious uncertainties. Yesterday, your guard was virtually impenetrable and you look set for a very long innings indeed at the crease. Today, someone you thought was on the same side might choose to run you out in a cavalier act of insouciance. Tomorrow, if you’re still in, in the side, and available for a second innings, you could return the compliment with a corresponding coup: insouciance for the goose is insouciance for the gander. That’s politics.

When Winners Lose Out to Runners-up by Thavam Ratna