Sometimes when things break, it’s a mystery.
But even when we can’t figure out what went wrong, we understand that something did fail.
- John Birmingham
- Brisbane Times
A critical component or an essential process wore out, or overloaded or somehow reached the limits of its design.
If a dishwasher has a drainage problem it’s probably a blocked outlet.
If a printer just stops printing, either the ink ran out, or the small time bomb the manufacturer placed deep inside the machine finally counted down to zero and exploded, forcing you to…
But how did our politics break?
Was it a simple failure or a…