This week in the saga

The pause bought quiet abroad and the fight came home instead. On Tuesday the oldest university in the country refuses a list of demands and by mid-morning its tax exemption is being discussed in a post as a thing that can be withdrawn. On Wednesday a judge rules that half a million people flown in under the last administration cannot be removed as a group, only one at a time, and he does the arithmetic out loud: a hundred years of trials. On Thursday the central bank is called late again, and the word termination is used about a man whose term does not end for a year. Then Easter, and two posts on the same Sunday afternoon: a greeting extended to the radical left lunatics and the weak and ineffective judges, and, four hours later, a rule of business set down like scripture — he who has the gold makes the rules. On Monday morning a pope dies, and the flag goes to half staff over a house that has spent the week arguing with the courts. By Monday evening the argument has reached the top of them.