It may be surprising to see management as a social grace, but fulfilling the burning need to exercise power in a relatively harmless manner provides a useful social service.

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What struck me as a little odd, though, is the semi-shocked and incredulous tone that pervades the article, the sort of tone that would accompany, say, a story about a clutch playoff performance by Tony Romo, a world series victory by the Baltimore Orioles, or Marc Zuckerberg and his innate likability and social grace.

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However, equality should not supplant good grace and confidence in the respective social roles we've become accustomed to.

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The statement said the council was within its rights to take immediate possession of the ground and social club but was allowing both a "period of grace" in the hope of "dialogue".

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The most self-aware of the gay men in this picture revel in the ironies of their social and sexual identities, and Livingston makes us appreciate the comic grace and the strange wisdom of that approach.

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