A straight line through square miles of verbiage

HAVING on occasion given out through clenched teeth and in language liberally interspersed with four-letter Anglo-Saxon about some of the stuff that Terry Prone writes, I must now congratulate her on her column (February 15) about recent high-profile political resignations.

It was the most incisive and insightful of the square miles of verbiage that last week’s departures of George Lee and Deirdre de Burca engendered in the media.

All of us have inherited this democratic republic from our forebears. They, at great cost to themselves, replaced an 800-year-old colonial situation with an egalitarian democracy. Like any human institution, it is not perfect.