Colin Sheridan: Ah sure don't mind elections — let's choose who runs the country at random

Governing should be assigned to us all by lottery like jury duty. Surely it couldn't be worse than what we endure from elected governments?

Picture the scene: You get an email saying that, just like jury duty, you've been selected at random for high office and are duly sworn in as a minister or whatever. Now get on with running the country. Picture: iStock

In the spirit of the broken clock that tells the right time twice a day, social media — for all the toxic hate it brews and the doom-scrolling it inspires — occasionally coughs up a morsel of clarity so pure you could bottle it and sell it as cognitive holy water. 

The often fine, sometimes inspired Subway Takes series produced one such moment recently, when actor Riz Ahmed sat in a New York subway car and announced, completely straight-faced: