'Never Again?'

Now it is suggested that here a similar euphoria gripped this country but that we also celebrated too quickly although, in reality, nothing of substance has changed.

In other words there is little to cheer about. I am going to take euphoria as having two distinct meanings - happiness at the overthrow or simply death of major figures so intimately related to the unhappiness/horrors of the past, Stalin, for instance, or Saddam, Mugabe and now our own ex-Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS) Director. Or euphoria about the prospects for change. These two are inter-related, of course, but I am opting for the more positive of those two meanings. True, another week has passed and we are still to hear how the new President will or will not make more significant changes.