The first thing I noticed was Malcolm’s suit.

Immaculately dressed at those daily pre-coup press conferences most days he seemed to be wearing a blue woollen suit with a thin dark blue check.

Like the man himself, the cut was contemporary and expensive and probably somewhere overseas. What could possibly go wrong with this leadership ballot?

Then he lost the job and went to New York and the media stalked him and pointed out the nanny shopping trolley as a symbol of diminished power and humiliation though he really looked like someone committed to the capitalist project.