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Lions should not underrate foxes

By Dominic Odipo

Readers of this column will be familiar with our categorisation of successful political leaders into two main groups; the lions and the foxes. This distinction was very clearly captured by Michael Maccoby in is book, The Gamesman, published in the United States at the end of the 1970s.

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