Hybrid worries

THE government seems to have gone out of its way to make a mountain out of what would otherwise have been a molehill. After all, only the very credulous would have believed reports about the president resigning and being replaced by the army chief.

With things going the establishment’s way, what good reason could it have to suddenly tear down the civilian façade that it has built up so carefully? There seems to be no doubt in anyone’s mind about where the real power resides; even the country’s...