Of Wilson Airport incident and why Ruto could be his own worst enemy

Politics is rarely dull. Watching politics, as American humour columnist HL Menken quipped in the 1920s, is like going to the zoo. Occasionally, one or two animals dominate, only to turn on each other to establish the real animal boss. The number of bleeding casualties rise, ‘friendships’ break, and ‘enemies’ patch up in an effort to defeat a powerful opponent before reverting to routine character assassination.