Progress

The Herald interviews Bob Clarkson today, and one bit caught my eye in passing:

While we were waiting the press secretary took us on a tour. He wanted to show us the billiard room. We were most emphatically not allowed inside, said a security bloke. We went inside, through a back door.

This was, I think, to demonstrate that people seldom go into this room, where the politicians used to hang out and drink and plot in the days Parliament used to be full of Good Jokers like Clarkson.

And now there's only the one of them. See, we have made progress!