Well, we have been waiting four years for some judicial explanation of an enduring mystery, and we’re still waiting. What could possibly be wrong with holding a primary election? We have some progress. Looking at the outcome of the trial of the 16 pro-democracy figures who pleaded not guilty to conspiring to commit subversion over their involvement in said poll, it appears that it was not the primary as such which was the problem. The problem was what they said they were going to do afterwards. Leaving aside the lurid things which some candidates said or wrote in the exciting pre-election atmo…
