…it is with great sadness that I post a general Obituary for the Presence of Eloquent Rhetoricians in the Houses of Parliament… the art of the sparkling soupçon, the elegance of counterpose debate, the majesty of vocabuleric nimbleness, alas, have all joined the Dodo, the Woolly Mammoth and the Sabre Tooth Cat on the roster of extinct creatures… 
I’d posit that the genus ‘Statesman/Stateswoman’ has lapsed into ever-receding mem’ry… my not so ‘umble view is that Master Mikhail Gorbachev is/was the last of that illustrious line… I watch the SkyNews channel for no other reason than that it’s so bad, it’s often quite funny, and today it carried the usual weekly slanging match in the British Houses of Parliament, guising under the term, Prime Minister’s QuestionTime... these days, this constitutes half an hour of assorted insults in the form of Questions to Her Majesty’s premier parliamentarian from the…
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