NEELS BLOM: When you meet the troll at the bridge on liberation day…
It is not as though this fly angler wants to complain or anything, but it has been a tough few days. It has been challenging – in politically correct, postmodern, post-truth, post-haste parlance – in the way a troll at the bridge is challenging; you know you are about to perish, but whether it is of fright or mirth is not clear. Perhaps those two impostors are to be treated just the same. What happened started on Tuesday last week. That was the day of getting ready for International Women’s Day, and its tone persisted deep into the aftermath on Thursday. On the high day, Wednesday, an esteemed colleague questioned the necessity of a little cut to (possessive pronoun withheld) text destined for the print edition of Business Day. What (insert pronoun of your choice) got was an impromptu lecture about widows and orphans, in the typographical sense, so named because they have been abandoned in what used to be a sea of lead: orphans (for want of a past) beginning a paragraph all alone at...
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