Horseless horsemen

The talent of acting is a gift from heaven. It shows itself, dazzling at every moment and on every occasion. An example is Notis Mitarakis, the new minister of citizen protection, and formerly minister of migration and asylum, deputy minister of labor and deputy minister of development.

I wrote here on Thursday about the prime ministerial rotation, which, frankly, has nothing to do with basketball. In basketball, and in all sports, when the players who usually warm the bench finally get to play, they step into their familiar position. No coach requires a playmaker to play power forward or a shooting guard to become a center.

The sport of politics, however, has its own rules - difficult for common mortals to understand. That is why we see party officials who managed to go through three, four and five deputy ministerial and ministerial positions before even reaching...