The centre cannot hold

In 1970, when Edward Heath was running against Harold Wilson, the incumbent Prime Minister, he promised to cut inflation ‘at a stroke’. When he won, he realised how difficult it was to implement in office what you think is easy when outside. Something like this is going on about the Lokpal Bill and the furore surrounding yet another ‘fast unto death’ (FUD) which seems to have rattled the government for reasons which are hard to fathom.

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