OPINION

Democracy is the smell of tear gas in the morning

News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 26/11/2012

» During World War II, American writer EB White was asked to define "democracy". He went on to scribble a few evocative lines about the sights, smells and minutiae that he personally associated with the hard-to-define term, a term that is almost universally heralded as good, but has long been bandied about with abandon.