The Main Stages of Denial

Attending Tory Conference so you don't have to

Photo credit: Salman Anwar

One of the most thoughtful sermons I’ve heard at a memorial talked about the paradoxical idea that loss was about comprehending the presence of an absence. This week in Birmingham, as the Tory Party came together to contemplate its own loss, the absences were abundant – both in terms of the trappings of government and in the co…