If you want to know how a sausage is made, as the saying goes, don’t ask. It is messy and sickening as ground meat and stuffing, sometimes from dubious sources, are mashed together and pressed inside a skin casing made from intestines.

I speak, of course, of the new government of national unity (GNU) cabinet whose white and black stuffing has actually expanded the size of the senior executive simply to make space for potentially grumpy members of the ruling party...