The thing no one tells you about the stages of grief is that they are not, in fact, stages. Any serious bereavement is likely to produce periods of denial, anger, bargaining and depression – but there’s no pre-ordained order to them, and they don’t show up neatly, one after the other, but pile upon you at random or sometimes all at once.
This exhausted government has not left this mortal plane quite yet – but already those who loved it are in open mourning for what they’ve lost. In the pages of the right-wing press, every stage of grief, almost, is already on show even now.
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