With parliament, the castigation of the cabinet has been, to them, an end in itself rather than an instrument for securing better conditions for the people.
The first of these meetings sentenced the recalcitrant monk to corporal castigation, deposition from the priestly office and imprisonment; his books were to be burned.
Twitterstorms now have a familiar playbook: outrage, castigation, a collective loss of proportion, the herd's humiliation of the victim, calls for apologies.
