...and that's how it ended

Wednesday 28th July 2021

The climax was worth waiting for. After speaking to so many hostile crowds, after endless heckling and booing, after becoming used to having to shout just to be heard, he spoke to a supportive, even an adoring crowd and probably the largest he had ever addressed. They listened, they cheered, they encouraged. He was elated, uplifted, even renewed, we were later told by his erstwhile successor...