There is an air of inevitability about the predicament facing the former sports minister Bridget McKenzie over the sports grants affair. All the usual portents for dismissal are lining up as if they know their place and what is expected of them: a few half-hearted expressions of support, a lot of leaks to the media, the silent hopes of her colleagues that she will be sacked, so they can move up a notch on the slippery pole, the now ritualistic referral of the issue to a public servant because parliamentarians are too spineless to decide these things for themselves and,...