The fall sitting looks to be shaping up as a disastrous combination of an unstoppable force and immovable object that will spark conflict in the House of Commons, bleeding into the Senate.
While some male politicians experience harassment and abuse, female politicians are disproportionately the victims of bullying and similar behaviour.
It’s hard to face the degradation of the ‘civil’ in civility, in civil society, in civilization, but parliamentarians have a duty to defend and strengthen democracy.